Succession following reforestation on abandoned fields in Mount Papandayan West Java

Nuri Nurlaila Setiawan, . and Endah Sulistyawati, . (2008) Succession following reforestation on abandoned fields in Mount Papandayan West Java. [Proceedings Paper]

Mount Papandayan Nature Reserve in West Java has experienced a large-scale deforestation mainly due to illegal conversion of forests into agricultural fields during mid 1990s. Following the government;s action to vacate the Nature Reserve from agriculture activities most of farming activities have stopped and the fields were then abandoned. In some parts the abandoned fields have been re-forested either through government programs or community initiatives. This study aimed to investigate the extent to which succession has facilitated the entering of natural components from the forest nearby into the abandoned fields. The data were gathered through vegetation survey conducted on two abandoned-field sites having different history of reforestation i.e. through government program and community initiative and a site of natural forest as reference area. Shannon Wienner diversity index and Bray-Curtis similarity index were used to analyze the succession level. Based on the Bray-Curtis index the level of similarity to the reference area for the tree component were 0.014 for the government-program site and 0.016 for the community-initiated site. This indicates that after more than 10 years the trees on both reforested sites were still dominated by species planted at the beginning of reforestation with very limited entering of species from the nearby natural forest. Comparison with other reforestation cases indicates that the progress of succession in these sites is relatively slow. The finding of this study provides some lessons for improving reforestation conducted in mountain ecosystem.

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Mount Papandayan Nature Reserve in West Java has experienced a large-scale deforestation mainly due to illegal conversion of forests into agricultural fields during mid 1990s. Following the government;s action to vacate the Nature Reserve from agriculture activities most of farming activities have stopped and the fields were then abandoned. In some parts the abandoned fields have been re-forested either through government programs or community initiatives. This study aimed to investigate the extent to which succession has facilitated the entering of natural components from the forest nearby into the abandoned fields. The data were gathered through vegetation survey conducted on two abandoned-field sites having different history of reforestation i.e. through government program and community initiative and a site of natural forest as reference area. Shannon Wienner diversity index and Bray-Curtis similarity index were used to analyze the succession level. Based on the Bray-Curtis index the level of similarity to the reference area for the tree component were 0.014 for the government-program site and 0.016 for the community-initiated site. This indicates that after more than 10 years the trees on both reforested sites were still dominated by species planted at the beginning of reforestation with very limited entering of species from the nearby natural forest. Comparison with other reforestation cases indicates that the progress of succession in these sites is relatively slow. The finding of this study provides some lessons for improving reforestation conducted in mountain ecosystem.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
Additional Information:	Available at Perpustakaan Sultan Abdul Samad Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang Selangor Malaysia. GE90 M3I61 2008 Call Number
AGROVOC Term:	Reforestation
AGROVOC Term:	Secondary succession
AGROVOC Term:	Vegetation
AGROVOC Term:	Nature reserves
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:14
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/11812

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