Impact of Soil Types on Plant Diversification and Distribution in Labpur C.D. Block of West Bengal: A Geo-Botanical Approach

Abstract

Geospatial researches on Plant diversification really means a lot particularly in this era of global warming and massive extinction of in situ flora and fauna of each and every part of this blue planet wherever it was supposed to be. But with the transformation of natural lives to technical lives, the soil diversity has also been damaged over which the plant diversification mainly relies upon which are guided by the natural parameters of the atmosphere. Soil pH has been changing rapidly due to unscientific or forceful projects for accommodating the surplus population of the future world. This Geo-Botanical study has attempted to find a direct link if exists between soil pH as a major parameter in plant diversification and plant distribution as well. Hypothesis has been built up on the basis of some earlier sample surveys and it has tried to search for rapid deterioration on the plant diversification in the Labpur Community Development (C.D.) Block of Birbhum District in West Bengal, India as a model one which enjoys the fluvio-geomorphological environment of some major and micro river basins and was earlier a land of Jush green with unique biodiversity as known from the earlier British records. This study aims fo find out the Geographical as well as Botanical factors working behind the degradation in plant diversity and find out some ways to reduce the biological vulnerability of this region.