Forest biodiversity conservation and management: development of ecological monitoring system

Abdul Rahim N., . and Efransjah, . and Khalil A.H., . and Rashid A.S., . and Alexander K.S., . (2007) Forest biodiversity conservation and management: development of ecological monitoring system. [Proceedings Paper]

Within the biological diversity richness of Malaysias tropical forests peat swamp forest PSF is the most important of Malaysias wetland types which accounts approximately 75 of the area. As of 2006 the country possesses 1.45 million hectares of remaining PSF80 of which is found in Sarawak with some nearly contiguous area 200 000ha found in South-East Pahang and 75 000ha scattered in Selangor. Sabah has the smallest PSF compared to the other sites but remains biologically significant. The richness and importance of biodiversity found at the three PSF sites : South-East Pahang Peat Swamp Forest SEPPSFKlias Peninsular Sabah and Loagan Bunut National Park LBNP Sarawak will be illustrated in terms of its uniqueness endemicity and vulnerability and the initiative taken to promote conservation and sustainability by the associated ecosystems. An integrated database management system IDMS was developed for respective sites with the main purpose of establishing a system to cater easy storage and retrieval of the information and support the management prescriptions including ecological monitoring agreed under the management plan. The system includes three major components namely Biophysical and Socioeconomic IBSE database Forest Inventory and Biodiversity Assessment FIBA database and GIS database with a mapping capability. Basically both IBSE and FIBA contain information in textual database. IBSE stores data on current biophysical environmental and socio-economic conditions of the project areas. FIBA on the other hand stores data gathered from the sample plots and generated maps. An ecological monitoring system EMS is being developed to establish a realistic and institutionalised monitoring program and procedures for its implementation. It ensures the inclusion of appropriate data fields to allow monitoring function including specific reporting functions for the IDMS. The EMS was designed as a tool regularly assess the trend of certain parameters of biodiversity towards sustainability. Together with the management plan the monitoring system is needed to compulsory requirement within the nine principles of the Malaysian Criteria and Indicators for Forest Management Certification MCandI 2002. A framework of the standard operating procedures SOP was then developed focusing on the ecological/landscape hydrological biodiversity and socio-economic indicators. The work involves an international biodiversity specialist and an expert panel which intensively reviews and validates the SOP through consultations with state authorities and field testing operations. The above initiative is supported by UNDP/GEF Peat Swamp Forests Project MAL/99/G31 under the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment Malaysia.

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Within the biological diversity richness of Malaysias tropical forests peat swamp forest PSF is the most important of Malaysias wetland types which accounts approximately 75 of the area. As of 2006 the country possesses 1.45 million hectares of remaining PSF80 of which is found in Sarawak with some nearly contiguous area 200 000ha found in South-East Pahang and 75 000ha scattered in Selangor. Sabah has the smallest PSF compared to the other sites but remains biologically significant. The richness and importance of biodiversity found at the three PSF sites : South-East Pahang Peat Swamp Forest SEPPSFKlias Peninsular Sabah and Loagan Bunut National Park LBNP Sarawak will be illustrated in terms of its uniqueness endemicity and vulnerability and the initiative taken to promote conservation and sustainability by the associated ecosystems. An integrated database management system IDMS was developed for respective sites with the main purpose of establishing a system to cater easy storage and retrieval of the information and support the management prescriptions including ecological monitoring agreed under the management plan. The system includes three major components namely Biophysical and Socioeconomic IBSE database Forest Inventory and Biodiversity Assessment FIBA database and GIS database with a mapping capability. Basically both IBSE and FIBA contain information in textual database. IBSE stores data on current biophysical environmental and socio-economic conditions of the project areas. FIBA on the other hand stores data gathered from the sample plots and generated maps. An ecological monitoring system EMS is being developed to establish a realistic and institutionalised monitoring program and procedures for its implementation. It ensures the inclusion of appropriate data fields to allow monitoring function including specific reporting functions for the IDMS. The EMS was designed as a tool regularly assess the trend of certain parameters of biodiversity towards sustainability. Together with the management plan the monitoring system is needed to compulsory requirement within the nine principles of the Malaysian Criteria and Indicators for Forest Management Certification MCandI 2002. A framework of the standard operating procedures SOP was then developed focusing on the ecological/landscape hydrological biodiversity and socio-economic indicators. The work involves an international biodiversity specialist and an expert panel which intensively reviews and validates the SOP through consultations with state authorities and field testing operations. The above initiative is supported by UNDP/GEF Peat Swamp Forests Project MAL/99/G31 under the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment Malaysia.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
Additional Information:	3 ill. 2 tables. 3 ref.
AGROVOC Term:	FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY
AGROVOC Term:	FOREST MANAGEMENT
AGROVOC Term:	BIODIVERSITY
AGROVOC Term:	ECOLOGY
AGROVOC Term:	MALAYSIA
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:13
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/11032

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