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Table 4
Importance value index of top ten tree species in tropical dry deciduous forest of Sathanur reserve forest, Eastern Ghats
Name of the
species
Plot number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Albizia amara
(Roxb.) Bavi
12.2
21.9
213.6
216.7
152.4
26.6
139.4
222.9
17.6
132.3
134.7
150.0
124.0
153.2
164.7
Chloroxylon
swietenia
DC.
141.2
55.7
6.1
39.3
4.6
49.5
38.5
29.8
75.5
6.6
59.2
87.3
11.3
19.9
0.0
Azadirachta
indica
A.Juss
15.6
8.4
6.0
22.1
0.0
13.5
22.6
22.3
4.6
47.7
2.3
6.5
1.9
5.4
17.8
Pongamia
pinnata
(L.)
Pierre
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
13.3
3.2
4.4
43.7
40.0
Acacia catechu
(L. f.) Willd.
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
4.0
28.1
23.3
18.2
15.2
3.2
4.8
8.7
Gyrocarpus
jacquini
Roxb.
3.3
5.3
3.7
0.8
35.6
4.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.4
6.9
5.6
3.8
1.1
0.0
Atalantia
monophylla
(L.)
Correa
0.7
0.0
0.6
0.7
0.6
0.0
18.4
1.0
2.4
5.7
17.6
0.9
6.1
4.7
1.7
Wrightia
tinctoria
(Roxb.)
R.Br.
0.9
0.0
5.7
3.9
1.8
6.8
1.3
17.6
4.3
0.6
2.7
5.3
3.4
1.6
3.6
Diospyros
ebenum
Koen.
2.0
0.0
2.5
1.7
0.0
0.0
17.3
0.0
6.6
6.6
0.8
0.0
14.1
18.6
7.7
Drypetes sepiaria
(W. and A.) Pax
and Hoffm.
0.0
0.9
1.3
1.4
3.5
3.7
2.7
0.0
1.0
1.2
1.3
0.0
3.5
0.0
0.0
(continued)