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Survey of the Flora of Coal Mine Waste Dumps - a Case Study of Chasnala Mines, Dhanbad, Bihar


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1 Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India
2 Department of Ecological Studies, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India
 

The paper deals with the flora of Chasnala mine complex including various dump sites. The survey of flora deals with enumeration of species, their life forms and dispersal types. It is evident that the dumps can acquire flora and advent of the species is contributed by flora of adjacent areas. The wind dispersed species are rich and the herbaceous species predominate initially. Chemophytes and hemicryptophytes have advantage in the pioneering stage. Grasses and legumes also appeared in the early successional stages.
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Authors

B. Saha
Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India
C. Chakravorty
Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India
P. K. Mukherjee
Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India
S. C. Santra
Department of Ecological Studies, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India

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The paper deals with the flora of Chasnala mine complex including various dump sites. The survey of flora deals with enumeration of species, their life forms and dispersal types. It is evident that the dumps can acquire flora and advent of the species is contributed by flora of adjacent areas. The wind dispersed species are rich and the herbaceous species predominate initially. Chemophytes and hemicryptophytes have advantage in the pioneering stage. Grasses and legumes also appeared in the early successional stages.