Floristic Composition, Structure and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Nono Sele Forest, Ilubabor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia

Tadele Weldebirhan; Tibebu Alemu; Selamawit Negassa

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Floristic Composition, Structure and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Nono Sele Forest, Ilubabor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia

Tadele Weldebirhan, Tibebu Alemu, Selamawit Negassa

Published in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Volume 8, Issue 2)

Received: 23 May 2023 Accepted: 16 June 2023 Published: 27 June 2023

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Abstract

The Moist Evergreen Afromontane rainforest, which grows at altitudes of 1500 to 2600 m, dominates the forest vegetation in the highlands of Ethiopia. It is consequently critical to have a thorough understanding of particular vegetation's floristic composition, structure, and relationships in environmental elements that surround this thing. The investigation had been carried out on Nono Sele Forest in the Ilubabor Zone of Oromia National Regional State, in the south-west of Ethiopia, with the objective of deciding the vegetation structure, community type, as well as natural regeneration condition for woody species in the forest. A systematic sampling procedure was used to gather vegetation data. To cover most of the representative of the forest, a total of forty-six plots of 400 m² (20 m x 20 m) for trees, within the main quadrat sub-plots of 25 m² (5 m x 5 m) for shrubs, herbaceous and climber species, at each corner of the main plots and in the center, five 1 m² (1 m x 1 m) for saplings and seedlings of woody plant species. Within the Nono Sele forest, Rubiaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Celesteraceae, and Euphorbiaceae, are among the richest plant families in the current study. The vegetation was grouped into three different plant community types. Nono Sele Forest is structurally is highly represented by young sized woody species. The forest is also identified by fair regeneration condition, as demonstrated by the fair density of seedlings as well as saplings for the preponderance of the woody species.

Published in	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Volume 8, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.eeb.20230802.11
Page(s)	28-37
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Nono Sele Forest, Plant Community, Regeneration, Structure

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Tadele Weldebirhan, Tibebu Alemu, Selamawit Negassa. Floristic Composition, Structure and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Nono Sele Forest, Ilubabor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. Ecol Evol Biol. 2023;8(2):28-37. doi: 10.11648/j.eeb.20230802.11

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Tadele Weldebirhan

Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, Mattu Biodiversity Center, Mattu, Ethiopia
Tibebu Alemu

College of Agriculture and Veterniary Medicine, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
Selamawit Negassa

College of Agriculture and Veterniary Medicine, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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Tadele Weldebirhan; Tibebu Alemu; Selamawit Negassa. Floristic Composition, Structure and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Nono Sele Forest, Ilubabor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. Ecol. Evol. Biol. 2023, 8(2), 28-37. doi: 10.11648/j.eeb.20230802.11

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Tadele Weldebirhan, Tibebu Alemu, Selamawit Negassa. Floristic Composition, Structure and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Nono Sele Forest, Ilubabor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. Ecol Evol Biol. 2023;8(2):28-37. doi: 10.11648/j.eeb.20230802.11

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