Impacts of fire on SouthEast Asia tropical forests biodiversity: A review.

Forest fires have affected millions of hectares of tropical forests and other vegetation types annually. Over the past decades, the increase occurrence of fires has caused degradation of the tropical forest ecosystem and caused impacts to the environment. The objective of this paper was to review th...

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Main Authors: Syaufina, Lailan, Nuruddin, Ahmad Ainuddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSINET) 2011
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description Forest fires have affected millions of hectares of tropical forests and other vegetation types annually. Over the past decades, the increase occurrence of fires has caused degradation of the tropical forest ecosystem and caused impacts to the environment. The objective of this paper was to review the impacts of the fires to the tropical forest ecosystem in Southeast Asia. Forest fires affect vegetation by suppressing certain species and promoting other species causing changes in vegetation structure and altering successional pattern. It also rejuvenate tropical pines. Fire causes reduction in soil macroorganism diversity and change soil bacterial composition. Knowledge of fire effects on biodiversity may benefit forest managers. Fire adaptive vegetation can be used as important species in rehabilitation of burned area.
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spelling upm.eprints-239572013-11-22T04:15:34Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23957/ Impacts of fire on SouthEast Asia tropical forests biodiversity: A review. Syaufina, Lailan Nuruddin, Ahmad Ainuddin Forest fires have affected millions of hectares of tropical forests and other vegetation types annually. Over the past decades, the increase occurrence of fires has caused degradation of the tropical forest ecosystem and caused impacts to the environment. The objective of this paper was to review the impacts of the fires to the tropical forest ecosystem in Southeast Asia. Forest fires affect vegetation by suppressing certain species and promoting other species causing changes in vegetation structure and altering successional pattern. It also rejuvenate tropical pines. Fire causes reduction in soil macroorganism diversity and change soil bacterial composition. Knowledge of fire effects on biodiversity may benefit forest managers. Fire adaptive vegetation can be used as important species in rehabilitation of burned area. Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSINET) 2011 Article PeerReviewed Syaufina, Lailan and Nuruddin, Ahmad Ainuddin (2011) Impacts of fire on SouthEast Asia tropical forests biodiversity: A review. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences, 10 (4). pp. 238-244. ISSN 1682-3974; ESSN:1812-5697 http://www.ansinet.com/ 10.3923/ajps.2011.238.244 English
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title Impacts of fire on SouthEast Asia tropical forests biodiversity: A review.
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title_short Impacts of fire on SouthEast Asia tropical forests biodiversity: A review.
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