Composition of ground-herb community in Bukit Bauk Forest, Dungun, Terengganu

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.