Structure and Dynamics of Forests under Logging Concession in Papua, Indonesia

Gandhi, Yosias

• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783736976344
• eBook ISBN: 9783736966345
• Edition: 1

The sexiest lowland forests in Papua Indonesia, hosting many high-valued timber species, attract the country's authorities to allocate 94% as production forests. The main aim is to manage the forests sustainably under a concessionaire system strongly requiring sustainable-sense protocols stated in the national silviculture system-TPTI. However, in many cases, the logging activities in the tropics fail to perform sustainability in production and ecological integrity due to unavoidable high harvesting intensity adopted in uniform cutting protocols. Therefore, comprehending an intact forest's local-specific features helps develop an adaptable silviculture technique. The book elaborates on 143 species identified in two logging concessions of Papua and explains significant differences in the distinct primary forests formed by the species. It also reveals the individuals and species of commercial timbers left after logging. Furthermore, it presentably discusses the current logging impacts potentially changing the species' relative abundance, downgrading the future degree of tree diversity and causing a massive timber volume reduction that fizzles out to enter the third cycle. Additionally, the state-of-the-art method of relating species' slope structure with its sapwood content of ?15N and N is conceptually explained to classify 103 species by light-requirement trait. Therefore, it is a critical indicator for species selection in the enrichment planting of pre-grown seedlings and subsequent tending. Ultimately, including a combination of species-specific minimum cutting diameter in TPTI with the consequence of enlarging the concession area becomes the ambitious goal of this work.

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 1.1. The threat to tropical forests of insular South East Asia
• 1.2. Regeneration of natural tropical primary forest
• 1.3. Logging impacts on tropical forests
• 1.4. Sustaining tropical logged forests
• 1.5. The rationale of the study
• 2. Study sites and Methods
• 2.1. Site selection
• 2.2. Tunas site
• 2.3. Bonggo site
• 2.4. Study plot establishment, arrangement, and design
• 2.5. Data Collection
• 2.6. Data analysis
• 3. Accuracy and precision of sample data
• 3.1. Data accuracy
• 3.2. Data precision
• 4. Intact primary forests of Tunas and Bonggo
• 4.1. Tree family and species composition
• 4.2. Tree species diversity and similarity in the primary forest
• 4.3. Stand structure and dynamics in the primary forest
• 4.4. Seedling and sapling characteristics of the primary forest
• 5. Logged forests of Tunas and Bonggo
• 5.1. Tree species composition in unlogged and logged forests
• 5.2. Tree species richness and diversity in the logged forests
• 5.3. Stand structure of logged forest
• 5.4. Regeneration of canopy tree species
• 6. Light requirements of tree species
• 6.1. Concept
• 6.2. Slope of tree species distribution
• 6.3. Stable N isotope ratio (δ15N) and total N in tree tissue
• 6.4. Diameter distribution, stable N isotope ratio (δ15N) and total N
• 6.5. Grouping of tree species light requirements
• 7. Silvicultural approaches and further implications
• 7.1. Silviculture: General definitions and implications
• 7.2. Silviculture: Existing regulations
• 7.3. Implications of species performance for silviculture approach
• 8. Summary
• Zusammenfassung
• References
• Appendices