Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography
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Research Article

Leaf Demography of Some Evergreen and Deciduous Tree and Shrub Species of Kumaun Himalaya, India

¹Department of Botany, D. S. B. Campus Kumaun University, Nainital, India

²Department of Forestry, D. S. B. Campus Kumaun University, Nainital, India

*Corresponding Author:

Sanjay Kumar
Department of Botany
D. S. B. Campus Kumaun University
Nainital-263002, India
Tel: +91-5942-237764
E-mail: sanjay14_kumar@yahoo.in

Received date: June 04, 2013; Accepted date: June 24, 2013; Published date: June 26, 2013

Citation: Sanjay Kumar, Lalit M. Tewari, Ashish Tewari (2013) Leaf Demography of Some Evergreen and Deciduous Tree and Shrub Species of Kumaun Himalaya, India. J Ecosys Ecograph 3:127. doi:10.4172/2157-7625.1000127

Copyright: © 2013 Sanjay Kumar, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and and source are credited.

Leaf demography was studied in 9 trees (6 Evergreen (ES), 1 Semideciduous (SD) and 2 Deciduous (DS)) and 10 shrubs (7 Evergreen (ES) and 3 Deciduous (DS)) occurring between 350 to 2500 m elevation in the Kumaun Himalaya, India. Although each species had its own pattern about seasonality of leaf recruitment, it was possible to group the species based on leaf expansion behavior. The result shows the leaf expansion rate was greater for deciduous species compared to Evergreen species. The percent leaf area after four weeks of expansion was also greater for deciduous species.

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