Dipterocarpaceae: Fires and Forest Recovery

Aldrianto Priadjati Aldrianto Priadjati Dipterocarpaceae: Forest Fires and Forest Recovery Thesis Wageningen University, the Netherlands – With ref. – With summaries in English, Dutch and Bahasa Indonesia

Keywords: forest fires, forest recovery, Dipterocarpaceae, Shorea leprosula, population phenotype, soil, mycorrhizae, ecophysiology, light intensity, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

ISSN 1566-6522 ISBN 90-5808-753-0 (thesis version) 90-5113-062-7 (Tropenbos version)

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Cover photo: Forest Fires 1997-98 in the Wanariset Samboja, Kalimantan, Indonesia (W.T.M Smits) Printed by: Ponsen & Looijen, Wageningen, the Netherlands. DIPTEROCARPACEAE: FOREST FIRES AND FOREST RECOVERY

Aldrianto Priadjati

PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor op gezag van de Rector Magnificus van Wageningen Universiteit, Prof.dr.ir. L. Speelman, in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 26 november 2002 des namiddags te 16.00 uur in de Aula, Wageningen Promotoren: Prof.dr.ir. R.A.A. Oldeman, Hoogleraar in de bosteelt en bosoecologie, Wageningen Universiteit, Nederland

Prof.dr.ir. Joedoro Soedarsono, Hoogleraar in de microbiologie, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Prof.dr. Steph B.J. Menken Hoogleraar in de evolutionaire biologie Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nederland

Promotiecommissie: Prof.dr. A.M. Cleef, Wageningen Universiteit, Nederland Prof.dr.ir. A.F. van der Wal, Wageningen Universiteit, Nederland Prof.dr. R.F. Hoekstra, Wageningen Universiteit, Nederland Dr.ir. Irsyal Yasman, PT Inhutani I, Jakarta, Indonesia Dipterocarpaceae: Forest Fires and Forest Recovery

Aldrianto Priadjati

The Tropenbos Foundation Wageningen, the Netherlands 2002 Tropenbos-Kalimantan Series The Tropenbos-Kalimantan Series presents the results of studies and research activities related to sustainable use and conservation of forest resources in Indonesia. The multi-disciplinary MoF-Tropenbos Kalimantan programme operates within the framework of the international programme of the Tropenbos Foundation. Executing Indonesian agency is the Forest Research Institute, Samarinda, governed by the Research and Development Agency (FORDA). Other Indonesian executing agencies include the Association of Indonesian Concession Holders (APHI) and PT INHUTANI I.

Wageningen University, the Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia Netherlands !#

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1.3.2 The taxonomical characteristics of Shorea leprosula Miq.

Seedling (Fig. 1.5A) A S. leprosula seedling has an epigeal germination, cotyledons equal and spreading vertically with first leaves opposite (Foxworthy, 1932). The seedlings are very easy to recognize because they have domatia at the back of the leaf along the main nerve but these will become less abundant when the seedling reaches pole size. Furthermore, Meijer and (1964), Yasman (1994), Newman et al. (2000) and Sidiyasa (2001) describe the seedling of S. leprosula as follows: Main stem, twigs and petioles glabrous or with soft hairs; Stipules 0.5 by 0.1 to 0.2 mm, oblong, reddish green, c. 4-nerved, stellate pubescent, persistent; petiole 0.7 cm; Leaves 4 to 5.6 by 9 to 12.7 cm, oblong or oblong lanceolate including 0.7 cm long gradually tapering acumen, glabrous above except for minute stellate hairs on midrib and nerve bases, 12 to15 nerves, glabrous below except for fine, small stellate hairs on the midrib, on upper surface margin of midrib swollen by the domatia, center sunken, below elevated and densely longitudinally channeled; base rounded or almost truncate; nerves sharply turned up at the margin; petiole 0.3 in. long; Domatia present on lower surface, arranged continuously along the main nerve (midrib) or sometimes up to half the base of the secondary nerve when young.

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Figure 2.3 Distance from the edge versus height (cm) and growth of seedlings and saplings. Data points are measurements of individual plants in 2 x 2 m subplots (seedlings) and 5 x 5 m subplots (saplings). Seedling height (a) is significantly greater in unburned than in burned forest. Seedling growth however, is significantly greater in the burned forest. Those data points greater than 100 in plot (b) all belong to either Mallotus mollissimus or Mallotus paniculatus (Euphorbiaceae). Sapling height (c) is significantly greater in burned than in unburned forest. Compared to unburned forest all saplings shorter than 5 m died. In the burned area there is a patch of unburned forest (Plot 4, subplots 7 and 9) that can be seen in plot (c). There is no significant difference between the growth of saplings in burned and unburned forest. It is evident, however, that there was very little growth for saplings outside the unburned patch in the burned forest.

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Figure 2.4 Biplot of the butterfly community from the correspondence analysis of all butterfly species (n > 5). The largest amount of variation (16.48%) in the butterfly community is between burned and unburned states along CA-1. Species to the extreme left of the biplot (low CA-values) are strongly associated with unburned forest, i.e. Arhopala pseudomuta and Arhopala norda. Species to the extreme right of the biplot are associated with burned forest, i.e. Appias paulina and Eurema lacteola (Appendix 2).

Figure 2.5 Biplot of the seedling community from the correspondence analysis. As in the butterfly community the largest amount of variation (23.34%) is between burned and unburned sites along CA-1. Plant species to the extreme right are strongly associated with unburned forest i.e. Aglaia simplicifolia (Meliaceae) and Dipterocarpus convertus (Dipterocarpaceae). Plant species to the extreme left are strongly associated with burned forest, i.e. Dillenia sp. (Dilleniaceae) and Macaranga gigantea (Euphorbiaceae). The latter are typical pioneer species (see Appendix 3).

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It is interesting (see Figure 2.8) that many typical forest butterflies such as J. pura, various Tanaecia species and Erites elegans (not shown) exhibited a rather abnormal behaviour by their often pronounced presence in severely perturbed, burned areas. Normally these species are confined to the forest.

Figure 2.8 Distribution of the four most abundant butterfly and seedling species in the Sungai Wain forest. All species except T. clathrata show a significant preference for either burned or unburned forest. The preference of germination for seedlings is marked with almost no germination of rainforest trees such as S. laevis and M. lowii in burned forest and no germination of the pioneer M. gigantea in unburned forest. With the seedling species the third column indicates the number of saplings. Saplings indicate the prefire forest community and most of them died in the burned forest. The pioneer M. gigantea, for example, was absent from the prefire forest as indicated by the complete lack of saplings. The butterfly species O. medus is also a typical pioneer associated with secondary vegetation. The relatively high proportion of butterflies in burned forest is related to both the proximity of the burned and unburned plots and the very open nature of the forest edge.

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In the light of laboratory science, such an experimental set-up is unsatisfactory. As a field experiment, it has the drawback of many artificial structures and factors. Still, it is preferred in the present book to remain closer to natural conditions than to perfect laboratory regulation of experimental conditions. Our experiments, therefore, have the virtue of streamlining mere empirical data from nursery practices while at the same time the results are directly relevant to silvicultural practices. This viewpoint will be evaluated in the discussion at the end of this chapter.

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