S. S. Inamati , K. V. Devar , A. Krishna

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A field experiment was conducted in Devimane, Western Ghats (Karnataka) to find out the floristic composition. This paper deals with floristic composition of the study area, which composed of 43 families represented by 130 species across all four altitudinal zone. The community coefficient among four altitudinal zones exhibited close relationship with more than 57 per cent of common species. high altitudinal zone was recorded highest species richness (10.53), Shannon index (3.61) and evenness index (0.86) as compared to rest of the altitudinal zones whereas study area recorded contiguous distribution, which is the commonest pattern in nature.

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A. K. Kiran Kumar , K. V. Devar

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Fruits were collected from 40 individual trees from four climatic zones viz., dry deciduous, moist deciduous, evergreen and coastal zone in Uttara Kannada District of Karnataka and correlation co-efficients were analysed to understand the relationship of growth, fruit yield and germination traits. The association of morphometric characters revealed that fruit yield per tree was highly positive and significantly associated with crown diameter and negatively associated with clear bole height indicating that the fruit yield will increase as crown diameter enlargers and clear bole height decreases. Economic part of tree is pericarp of the fruits, which was strongly associated with fruit weight and diameter. however, per cent germination was strongly associated with seed weight, and fruit weight, which were positively significant. This shows that fruits, with large seeds supported high germination.

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