International Science Community Association International Research Journal of Environmental Sciences 2319 - 1414 3 1 2014 January 22 A Study of Seasonal Variation in Biomass of three Medicinal Plants (Malva Neglecta, Rumex Patientia and Taraxacum Officinale) of Kashmir Valley, India 38 42 EN Rakib M.A. 1 Department of Disaster Management, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, BANGLADESH Ali M. 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, BANGLADESH Akter M.S. 3 Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, BANGLADESH Bhuiyan Mohammad A.H. 4 Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, BANGLADESH Verma Apoorv 1 Department of Civil Engineering, M.M.M. Engineering College Gorakhpur- 273 010, UP, INDIA Pandey Govind 2 Gupta Piyush 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur – 273010, UP, INDIA Pandey Govind 2 National Institute of Virology, B.R.D. Medical College, Gorakhpur, UP, INDIA Gore Milind 3 Department of Community Medicine, B.R.D. Medical College, Gorakhpur, UP, INDIA Srivastava D.K. 4 Misra B.R. 5 Devi Kuruva Syamala 1 G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science (For Women), Shaikpet, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA Swamy Arza V.V.S. 2 Department of Environmental Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA krishna Ravuri Hema 3 Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M5S 3H6 CANADA Dwivedi Naveen 1 Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, UK-248007 Balomajumder Chandrajit 2 Department of Biotechnology, S.D. College of Engineering and Technology, Muzaffarnagar-251001, UP, INDIA Mondal Prasenjit 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, UK, INDIA Luay A. Al-Helaly 1 Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Mosul University, IRAQ Tareq Y. Ahmed 2 Shah Abdul Barey 1 PG Department of Environmental Science, Sri Pratap P G College of Sciences, Srinagar (J&K), INDIA Sofi Shazia Majeed 2 > Research Paper 2014 1 1 2014 January 22 The study of natural biotic community is a pre-requisite to understand the structural as well as functional attributes to locate for better landscape management. Study on biomass is essential for estimating net primary productivity of any species. The increasing trend of total utilizations of forests and its products has created the need to estimate the total biomass production in matter basis rather than conventional volume estimate. Therefore, estimation of biomass stands as a pre-requisite for better resource utilization. An attempt was made to estimate the seasonal trend of three important medicinal plants Malva Neglecta, Rumex Patientia and Taraxacum Officinale, with respect to their biomass status from protected and degraded sites of the Kashmir valley. The harvest method was used to estimate the biomass of the selected medicinal plants. Variations in biomass were observed in all the three selected medicinal plants from season to season. The quantitative investigation on biomass estimation revealed that there is need for conservation and management followed by regular monitoring because of the degradation of ground flora due to anthropogenic and animal activities. Copyright@ International Science Community Association