title: The effect of type of marginal land use on the plant diversity.
abstract: The objective of this study closely focuses on the settlement of the effect of marginal land use on plant diversity. The location of this study was Sar Firouze Abad region with rainfall of over 350 mm and slope of over 12%. Five treatments in terms of land use (exclusion area, grazed range, fallow, annual medic cultivation, wheat cultivation) done with the repetition of five times. The factors, such as the number of species and the number of plant bases in each species in each sampling were measured. The method used here is based upon complete randomized design applying Duncan test and Raunchier method for classification of plant species and also Shannon-Wiener index of diversity and homogeny utilized. The results show that there are 76 species belonging to 60 genus and 19 families spreading in the region under study. The most dominant families are Fabaceae with 15 species covering 20% and Poaceae with 13 species covering 17%, respectively. According to Raunchier method the life form of the region species can be classified as Therophytes 66%, Geophytes 3%, Hemicryptophytes 26% and Chamaephytes 5%. The results also illustrate that the treatment of exclusion area has the most plant diversity in comparison with treatments of fallow, annual medic cultivation, wheat cultivation and range grazed.
authors.affiliation: Range Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ariapour
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chaichi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torknezhad
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zrzani
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aghaii
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D005843:Geography; D007492:Iran; D015233:Models, Statistical; D063245:Plant Development; D013045:Species Specificity; D014197:Trees / Q000254:growth & development