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| Title: | Species diversity and economic value of medicinal plants in five-hectare plots of hill dipterocarp forest, Pahang |
| Authors: | Awang Noor, A.G.
Tuan Marina, T.I.
Faridah Hanum, I, |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia |
| Citation: | Proceedings of the National Conference on the Management and Conservation of Forest Biodiversity in Malaysia: Putrajaya (Malaysia), 20-21 March 2007, p. 414-426 |
| Abstract: | Medicinal plants are one of the major forest resources in tropical forest. In Malaysia, medicinal plants have been given priority by the government as a source material for pharmaceutical products. This is because it provides new opportunities for creational of new wealth to the country in terms of medicinal plants in order to assess the extent of its distribution under different forest ecosystems, particularly in hill dipterocarp forest. Such information is also required to examine its diversity and richness. The diversity and richness as well as their economic value of medicinal plants in hill dipterocarp forest have not been extensively studied. This paper presents the results of an inventory of five-hectare plots carried out in Tranum Forest Rserve, Raub, Pahang. Five, one-hectare plots measuring 100m x 100m were laid out and traverse according to slope with a distance of 100m between each plot. In each plot, 100 subplots or quadrats measuring 10m x 10m were established to conduct 100 percent inventory of medicinal plants. The inventory also involved data collection on all trees (1cm and above), ferns, palm, shrubs and ornamentals in each subplot. These data were gathered as a part of a study on Economic Valuation and Forest Resource Accounting in Peninsular Malaysia undertaken by Forestry Department Peninsulat Malaysia. Data on medicinal plants were extracted and analysed to calculate species diversity, richness and economic value. The program Estimates was used to compute the means and variances of the species richness estimators, based on 20 randomized quadrat orders for the data set all sample accumulation levels. Compuataions were also carried using Estimates to calculate species diversity index (Alpha, Shannon and Simpson). The economic value of medicinal plants was calculated using residual value technique using inventory data collected in this study and data on price, cost and other information were based on previous studies. In addition, species accumulation curves were also estimated based on no-liner models using STATA. Suggestions for future research are also highlighted. |
| License: | http://www.oceandocs.org/license |
| URI: | http://agris.upm.edu.my:8080/dspace/handle/0/7252 |
| ISBN: | 978-983-9269-56-7 |
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