FLORA AND FAUNA ISSN 2456-9364(Online) 0971-6920(Print)
         
2017 Vol.23 No.2 PP 331-340
ESTIMATION OF ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS OF THE THREE SITES (GRAZED SITE, PROTECTED SITE AND SEED SOWN SITE) FOR COMPARING THEIR PRODUCTIVITY IN KASHMIR VALLEY
AFSHAN ANJUM BABA, SYED NASEEM UL-ZAFAR GEELANI, ISHRAT SALEEM, MOHIT HUSAIN*, PERVEZ AHMAD KHAN, AKHLAQ A. WANI AND SUHEEL AHMAD
Faculty of Forestry
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural
Sciences and Technology of Kashmir,
BENHAMA, GANDERBAL-193201 (J&K) INDIA
*Corresponding Author : Email : mohit.husainchf@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The plant biomass for protected areas was maximum in summer (1221.56 g/m2) and minimum in winter (290.62 g/m2) as against grazed areas having maximum value 590.81 g/m2 in autumn and minimum 183.75 g/m2 in winter. Study revealed that at Protected site (Kanidajan) the above ground biomass ranged was from a minimum (1.11 t ha-1) in the spring season to a maximum (4.58 t ha-1) in the summer season while at Grazed site (Yousmarag), the aboveground biomass varied from a minimum (0.54 t ha-1) in the spring season to a maximum of 1.48 t ha-1 in summer seasonandat Seed sown site (Badipora), the lowest value of aboveground biomass obtained was 4.46 t ha-1 in spring while as the highest (7.98 t ha-1) was obtained in summer.

Key words : Above ground biomass, Below ground biomass, Grasslands Productivity.
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