Forest Types of Ujung Kulon (West Java, Indonesia)

摘要

A vegetation survey was carried out in the Ujung Kulon nature reserve (West Java,Indonesia). Attention was paid to the altitudinal zoning of the vegetation, to succession and to the applicability of the phyto-sociological approach in forests of the humid tropics. The altitudinal zoning provides a clear example of the so-called telescope effect. The pattern of primary forests, secondary forests, and shrublands can be explained by the former shifting cultivation practice and the impact of the 1883 eruption of the nearby volcano Krakatau. The arguments against the phyto-sociological approach in the humid tropics are found to be invalid. (Copyright (c) 1990, The Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Research.)