Abstract:
The herb community of tropical forest is very little known, with few studies addressing
its structure quantitatively. Hence, with this few studies, many information about the
community of tropical forest ground-herb were remained unknown. The significance of
this study is to provide us at least some knowledge about the ground-herb community in
Bukit Bauk forest. The study had the objectives of studying the diversity, abundance and
the distribution of the ground-herb species in Bukit Bauk forest as well as to compare the
species composition between elevations. This study was carried out at Bukit Bauk forest
located 11 km from Dungun town and was conducted at three location of different
elevation. The elevation studied were 45m, 145m and 345m above sea level (these
elevations referred as elevation 1, 2, and 3 respectively) and one plot sized 20mx50m
were placed at each of this location. Ground-herbs were surveyed in total 3.0 subplots of
100m 2 each distributed in three plots of 1000m of each.
