Quantitative analysis of plant species diversity in Kano zoological garden

Abstract

The study was necessitated by the fact that quantitative floristic inventories provide necessary The study was necessitated by the fact that quantitative floristic inventories provide necessary context for planning and interpreting long -term ecological term ecological research. It’s also needed in research. It’s also needed in conservation biology more than ever as an increasing number of threatened species find their conservation biology more than ever as an increasing number of threate way onto international and national “red lists”. Objective evaluation of population decline and way onto international and national “red lists”. Objective evaluation of population decline and extinction probability is required for sound decision making. Long -term studies of term studies of tree tree population dynamics are critical for our understa nding of the conservation needs of tropical nding of the conservation needs of tropical forest ecosystems. The study analyzed the present Phyto -sociological, primary and secondary sociological, primary and secondary ecological parameters, plant species richness, dominance, similarities and pattern of plant ecological parameters, plant species richness, dominance, similarities and pattern of plant species diversity status in selected habitats in Kano zoological garden. The dominant plant selected habitats in Kano zoological garden. The dominant plant species were found to be Azadirachta indica which have the highest frequency, low frequency species were found to be Azadirachta indica which have the highest frequency, low frequency ou za ow were observed in Zizipus spina were observed in Zizipus spina-christi, Magnifera indica and Adansonia digitata