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Title: FOLIAR AND SOIL NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTION IN CONIFER FORESTS OF MOIST TEMPERATE AREAS OF HIMALAYAN AND HINDUKUSH REGION OF PAKISTAN: A MULTIVARIATE APPROACH
Authors: FAHEEM SIDDIQUI, MUHAMMAD
SHAHID SHAUKAT, SYED
AHMED, MOINUDDIN
AHMED KHAN, IMRAN
KHAN, NASRULLAH
Keywords: Foliar and soil nutrients
Conifer forest
Moist temperate region
CCA
CA
Cluster analysis
Issue Date: 5-Nov-2014
Publisher: Karachi:Pakistn Botanical Society, Karachi
Citation: Siddiqui, M. F., Shaukat, S. S., Ahmed, M., Khan, I. A., & Khan, N. (2014). FOLIAR AND SOIL NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTION IN CONIFER FORESTS OF MOIST TEMPERATE AREAS OF HIMALAYAN AND HINDUKUSH REGION OF PAKISTAN: A MULTIVARIATE APPROACH. Pak. J. Bot, 46(5), 1811-1827.
Abstract: Foliar nutrient concentration for the dominant conifer species (Pinus wallichiana, Abies pindrow and Cedrus deodara) of moist temperate areas of Himalayan and Hindukush region of Pakistan was evaluated. Soils samples and conifer needles were collected from forests at 41 sites in the study area. Six macro and seven micronutrients were analyzed for both soils and tissue. The mean nutrient levels and variability for each species was evaluated. The gradients in tissue nutrients were exposed by means of correspondence analysis (CA) and canonical correspondence (CCA), for each species. The first CA axis of Pinus wallichiana data was significantly correlated with soil N, P and K (p<0.05). The second CA axis was correlated with P, B and Ca, while the third was correlated with K and Mg (p<0.05). The first CA axis of Abies pindrow was not correlated with any soil nutrients, but the second axis showed correlation with soil Ca (p<0.05) and the third with S, Fe and N (p at the most 0.05). Cedrus deodara CA axes were not markedly correlated with soil nutrients. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) exposed the correlation structure between tissue nutrient and soil nutrient matrices with similar results thereby supporting the results of CA.
URI: http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/13999
ISSN: 2070-3368
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