LES ECOSYSTEMES DOMESTIQUES PAR L'HOMME DANS L'ANCIEN ROYAUME INSANA - TIMOR
<br />Based on ethnobotanical data, agricultural practice and floristic<br />analysis (simple and transect analysis), the author tries to evaluate human<br />impact on vegetation cover. He attempts also to show that originally this<br />environment consisted of two different...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indonesian Institute of Sciences
2000-09-01
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| Series: | Reinwardtia |
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| Online Access: | http://e-journal.biologi.lipi.go.id/index.php/reinwardtia/article/view/938 |
| Summary: | <br />Based on ethnobotanical data, agricultural practice and floristic<br />analysis (simple and transect analysis), the author tries to evaluate human<br />impact on vegetation cover. He attempts also to show that originally this<br />environment consisted of two different types i.e. dry and humid, each of<br />which corresponded to a certain floristic composition. There is a tendency<br />for this difference in composition to decrease there where human<br />interference is strongest, i.e. on land under cultivation. It is difficult to<br />verify that there is any part of Insana that is not influenced directly or<br />indirectly by human intervention. It is evident that the practice of slash<br />and burn has had the strongest influence on the transformation of the<br />vegetation cover. However, we have to consider also that the introduction<br />of Bah cattle to this territory has had a great impact on the modification of<br />the environment. Meanwhile there is a tendency to increase the number of<br />species or varieties of economic plants, in particular food plants. |
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| ISSN: | 0034-365X 2337-8824 |