scholarly journals Soil Quality Characterization in Relation to Tree Species Diversity in Tropical Rain Forest, West Sumatra, Indonesia I. Comparison of two 1-ha plots.

Tropics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke KUBOTA ◽  
Tsugiyuki MASUNAGA ◽  
HERMANSAH ◽  
Mitsuru HOTTA ◽  
Toshiyuki WAKATSUKI
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Tree Species Diversity ◽  
West Sumatra

Soil environment and tree species diversity in tropical rain forest, West Sumatra, Indonesia

1998 ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Kubota ◽  
Tsugiyuki Masunaga ◽  
Hermansah ◽  
Azwar Rasyidin ◽  
Mitsuru Hotta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Tree Species Diversity ◽  
Soil Environment ◽  
West Sumatra

scholarly journals Regeneración natural y diversidad de especies arbóreas en selvas húmedas

2017 ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Martínez-Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Tree Species Diversity ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Advanced Regeneration ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Tree Falls

One of the major biological mysteries still to be explained is the maintenance of the enormous local tree species diversity in tropical rain forests .This review explores the relationship between the dynamics of natural regeneration and the evolutionary and ecological processes and mechanisms involved in the origin and maintenance of such extraordinary diversity. First, 1 review ideas on the origin of tree species diversity in the tropics. This review suggests that: i) historical, evolutionary and biogeographical phenomena have a paramount influence on local species richness, and ii) tropical rain forest tree communities are species unsaturated, suggesting that newly originated species may freely migrate across a regional landscape. Second, I describe the forest regeneration process. Gap dynamics, promoted by branch and tree falls, is a fundamental component of the forest canopy renewal. Small gaps (caused by branch falls) facilitate the establishment and survival of seedlings and saplings in the shaded understory (advanced regeneration), whereas large gaps (caused by tree falls) enable trees to reach mature sizes. Gap creation and tree maturation are the extremes of a process of tree and species replacement in the forest canopy. Third, I explore relationships between the tree replacement process and the population and community mechanisms that facilitate maintenance of species diversity at a local scale of a few hectares. I argue and document that factors that promote high species diversity in the advanced regeneration favor high probabilities of heterospecific replacements among canopy trees. Hence, these factors facilitate the maintenance of species diversity in the forest canopy. Frugivores, by promoting diversity in the seed rain community, and biotic agents of seed, seedling and sapling mortality by operating mainly on abundant species, are key factors in facilitating diversity. Furthermore, the existence of trade offs in tree life history attributes (such as seed dispersal capacity, survivorship in the shade and growth under gap conditions) contributes to diversity maintenance by promoting heterospecific replacements. This review does not support ú1e idea that maintenance of tree species diversity in tropical rain forest depends on random processes, as some authors have claimed. instead, I conclude that ecological phenomena have a paran1ounl role on the possibility that a species gains a membresy in such highly diverse forests.

scholarly journals LAJU DEKOMPOSISI SPESIES TANAMAN PENGAKUMULASI KALSIUM (CA) TINGGI DAN RENDAH DI DAERAH HUTAN HUJAN TROPIS SUPER BASAH PADANG SUMATRA BARAT

Jurnal Solum ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Hermansah Hermansah ◽  
Burhanudin Burhanudin ◽  
Sri Muhara
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Decomposition Rate ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Nutrient Release ◽  
Dry Mass ◽  
Slope Position ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Lower Slope

Study on decomposition rate of accumulating and excluder tree species of calsium (Ca) was conducted in a super wet tropical rain forest in Gadut Mountain Padang West Sumatra. The purposes of the study were : (1) to understand the rate of decomposition of biomass of Ca accumulating and excluder tree species, (2) to understand the effect of slope position (ridge, midle and lower slope) on decomposition rate within the study plot and (3) to understand the amount of nutrient release to soil ecosystem within certain period. The result of this study showed that the higher decompoisition rate among two species was Eugenia sp, as Ca accumlating tree species which grew at lower slope. Six months after decomposition, 1 ton dry biomass of Eugenia sp contributed 6,8 kg N, 0,4 kg P, 4,12 kg K, 38,76 kg Ca, and 2,1 kg Mg in to the soil. This amount might keep an equilibrium of soil nutreint balance to support the forest ecosystem. However, for one ton dry mass of Lithocarpus korthalsii sp as Ca exluder tree species, after 6 months decomposition, contributed 9,4 kg N, 1,1 kg P, 4,61 kg K, 3,76 kg Ca and 0,54 kg Mg. This indicates that Ca acumulating tree species contributed more Ca compared to Ca excluder tree species in this forest ecosystem. Keywords: Accumulating tree sp., exluder tree sp., decomposition rate, super wet and tropical rain forest.

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