Agricultural and Biological Research

The assessment of florestic diversity towards the conservation of biodiversity in Pachamalai hills of Eastern Ghats

Melba Priyadharshini A, Dinesh Raja J, Sadhana Sri R and Immanuel Sagayaraj M*

The goal of the current study was to identify plants that the tribal people in the Pachamalai hills, which are situated in the Tiruchirappalli region of Tamil Nadu, India, use and to record the local names, medical applications, preparation techniques and other uses of the plants that were gathered. This is the first ethno botanical report from this region in which the reported plants' Cultural Indices (CIs) are used to calculate statistics. This study will pave the way to conserve the ecological factors and maintain the environment and biodiversity.