《Regeneration and Tree Species Diversity of Sitakund Botanical Garden and Eco-Park, Chittagong, Bangladesh》.pdf

J．Mt．Sci．(2014)11(4)：95o一958 e-mail：jms@imde．ac．cn http：／／jms．imde．ac．cn DOI：lO．10o7／s11629一o13-2886-z RegenerationandTreeSpeciesDiversityofSitakund BotanicalGardenandEco—Park，Chittagong，Bangladesh RajasreeNANDI”，HaraldVACIK 1InstituteofForestryandEnvironmentalSciences(IFES),Chi~agongUniversity，Chi~agong4331，Bangladesh 2DepartmentofForestandSoilSciences，Instituteof Silviculutre,UniversityofNautralResourcesandLife Sciences(8OKU)，PeterJordanStr．82，A-I19oVienna(Austria) *Correspondingauthor,e—mail：nandiuma@yahoo．corn _ Citation：NandiR，VacikH (2014)RegenerationandtreespeciesdiversityofSitakundBotanicalGardenandEco-park, Chittagong，Bnagladesh．JournalofMountmnScience11(4)．DOI：lO．1oo7／s11629-o13-2886z ⑥ SciencePressandInstituteofMountainHazardsandEnvironment，CASandSpringer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2014 Abstract： Anthropogenic disturbances influence decisionsoftheSGBE．Torestoretheseecosystems， plant regeneration and species diversity，which management should focus on both biodiversity impacttheconservation statusofprotectedareas．A conservation andprovidingbenefitstolocalpeople study was conducted in the Sitakund Botanical withouthamperingforestecosystems． Garden and Eco—park (SBGE)， Chittagong， Bangladesh toanalyzethenaturalregeneration and K_eywords：Humaninfluence；Speciesdiversity； treespeciesdiversityindisturbedandlessdisturbed Vegetationstructure；Regeneration；Disturbance index zones．Stratifiedandsystematicrandom samplingwas usedtoselect5osampleplotsfrom eachofthetwo zones．A totalnumberoflO9plantspeciesfrom 43 familieswererecorded in the studv：ofwhich 93 specieswereofnaturalorigin while therestwere planted．From thespecieswithnaturalorigin6