Boni, P.G., Njobdi, A.L. Marja, A.S and Mamudu, A
Abstract
The tree species found in the Bagale Hill Forest Reserve in Adamawa State, Nigeria, were included in this study. This checklist was created after a thorough field survey was conducted with the goal of investigating the simultaneous depletion of flora and inventory of all tree species. The study region was divided into three and numerous plots, with samples gathered at random from each plot and identified using native flora. In the study region, there were 7 different species of woody trees from 17 different families. The results revealed that one family has only one species, four families have eight species each, two families have ten species each, and two more families have five species each, while the remaining families have seventeen species, thirty-three species, and twenty-three species, respectively. The Combretaceae family has the highest frequency (33 species), accounting for 19.41% of the total species counted and occurring in all plots, followed by the Caesalpiniodeae family with 23 species (10.45%). This finding reveals a high rate of flora species degradation as a result of habitat conversion into residential areas, urbanization, indiscriminate logging, and degradation and reclamation of reserves for the development of various infrastructural facilities to satisfy insatiable human wants and subsistence farming. However, in order to be sustainable, many species today require high conservation priorities.