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:: Volume 5, Issue 11 (3-2018) ::
PEC 2018, 5(11): 65-87 Back to browse issues page
An ordination study of the Golestanak prohibited area vegetation (Mazandaran province) on the basis of altitude and aspect variables by canonical correspondence analysis
Reza Naderi * , Bahman Eslami2 , Saeed Afsharzadeh3 , Atefe Amir Ahmadi3 , Mohammad Reza Rahimi Nejad
Damghan University, School of Biology and Institute of Biological Science, Damghan University , rezanaderia@du.ac.ir
2- Islamic Azad University
3- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Isfahan
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This study is concerned with the vegetation investigation of Golestanak prohibited area, an ecotone with nearly 1800 ha area located between the timberline and subalpine-alpine zone in the central part of the Alborz Mountain Range (Mazandaran province). The effects of altitudinal gradient and aspect on plant diversity were evaluated by using CCA method (Canonical correspondence analysis) and a system of sixty sample plots were randomly used along five transects. The results showed that there is a negative correlation between the altitude and biodiversity variants meaning an increase in altitude leads to a decrease in the Shannon and Simpson indexes of the plots. The northern slopes have the highest plant diversity than the eastern and southern slopes, and the western slopes are allocated to the lowest plant diversity.

Keywords: Central Alborz, ecology, biodiversity, ordination, mountain habitat, CCA
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2017/01/15 | Accepted: 2017/03/11 | Published: 2018/05/25
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Naderi R, Eslami B, Afsharzadeh S, Amir Ahmadi A, Rahimi Nejad M R. An ordination study of the Golestanak prohibited area vegetation (Mazandaran province) on the basis of altitude and aspect variables by canonical correspondence analysis. PEC 2018; 5 (11) :65-87
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