Assessment of Soil Seed Banks in Biotically Influenced Tropical Deciduous forests of Sagar

The present paper deals with the composition of soil seed banks and vegetation in selected tropical dry deciduous forests sites. The primary objective is to provide data of this kind so as to establish the relationship between the soil seed bank composition with extent vegetation. Important factors which influence the composition of soil seed banks in forest include the dispersal mechanism of seeds, losses due to anthropogenic activities, damage due to fire, diseases, physiological death, decomposition and predation by animals. Result of the present study indicate the poor species richness in soil seed banks structure and composition as compared to above ground vegetation at the study site.