Diversity Loss due to Disturbance in Karachi, Pakistan

Authors

  • Fariha Naz Dr. Moinuddin Ahmed Laboratory of Dendrochronology and Plant Ecology, Department of Botany, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Campus, Karachi-Pakistan
  • Moinuddin Ahmed Dr. Moinuddin Ahmed Laboratory of Dendrochronology and Plant Ecology, Department of Botany, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Campus, Karachi-Pakistan
  • Muhammad Faheem Siddiqui Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Samma Ain Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Rafiqullah Balochistan Residential College, Khuzdar, Balochistan, Pakistan

Keywords:

Families, Non-woody plants, Diversity loss, Disturbance, Karachi

Abstract

A quantitative vegetational survey was conducted around Karachi, using the standard Quadrate method. Data were compared with previous (12 years before) recorded data and loss in families and species are mentioned in the present study. It is evident that compared to 127 species belonging to 54 families, now the area showed 32 plant species belonging to 23 families. Both previous and present results are presented in a table. It is concluded that human disturbances caused a great loss in the number of families and species.

Downloads

Published

2023-02-03

How to Cite

Fariha Naz, Moinuddin Ahmed, Muhammad Faheem Siddiqui, Samma Ain, & Rafiqullah. (2023). Diversity Loss due to Disturbance in Karachi, Pakistan. GU Journal of Phytosciences, 3(1), 22–29. Retrieved from https://jphytosci.com/index.php/GUJP/article/view/80

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023): GU Journal of Phytosciences [January, 2023]

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2023 The Authors

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All works published by the GU Journal of Phytosciences are freely available to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work provided the original work and source are appropriately cited under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International License. The CC BY-NC licence allows for maximum  re-use of open-access materials, and the author has full copyright over their publication. Under this license, users are free to share (copy, distribute, and transmit) and adapt for any purpose, but not for any commercial use (read full legal code).

Under Creative Commons, authors retain copyright in their articles.

Most read articles by the same author(s)