Abstract

The drivers of community structure diversity and distribution has generated a lot of interest among many scientists giving the complex environmental and biological interaction at different scales This prompted the application of multivariate techniques to explain the factors influencing variations in wetland plant community structure diversity and distribution in Northern Region of Ghana A total of 40 species were sampled and separated into four community structure swamp forest community shrub land community grassland community and herbaceous community using DCA Herbs grasses and trees shrubs constituted 72 72 27 27 and 0 01 respectively Change in plant community distribution was marginal as the first two axes only explained 1 18 of the variance along a longitudinal profile of environmental gradient Species turnover was low indicating a far more unimodal responses of some species to a gradient of disturbances than others Plant diversity was moderate H 1 86 - 2 66