Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Rainforest Using Dipterocarp Trees in Sarawak, Malaysia
Table 5
Seedlings height (cm), diameter (mm), and percentage of survivors (%) in relation to all planted individuals at 81 months of seven dipterocarp forest species.
Species
Height (cm)
Diameter (mm)
Survivor (%)
Grassland
Secondary forest
Logged forest
Grassland
Secondary forest
Logged forest
Grassland
Secondary forest
Logged forest
Dryobalanops beccarii
438.3 (ns)
370.4 (a)
335.7 (a)
54.0 (ns)
26.8 (ab)
26.4 (a)
6.6 (b)
45.4 (ab)
45.2 (ab)
Parashorea macrophylla
356.1 (ns)
169.4 (b)
81.7 (d)
56.6 (ns)
30.2 (a)
11.9 (d)
13.7 (b)
70.7 (a)
36.5 (ab)
Shorea macrophylla
557.5*†(—)
160.4 (b)
178.9 (bc)
83.0*† (—)
21.2 (bc)
22.8 (ab)
0.0 (b)
43.9 (ab)
52.3 (a)
S. ovata
232.0† (—)
272.0 (a)
261.6 (ab)
24.7† (—)
20.0 (c)
16.8 (bcd)
0.6 (b)
50.9 (a)
9.1 (b)
S. parvifolia
440.7 (ns)
350.8 (a)
111.5 (cd)
71.7 (ns)
26.7 (abc)
11.4 (cd)
18.5 (ab)
25.7 (b)
11.8 (b)
S. seminis
414.3 (ns)
204.5 (b)
143.3 (cd)
47.2 (ns)
21.4 (bc)
17.5 (c)
39.5 (a)
51.1 (ab)
54.6 (a)
S. virescens
383.4 (ns)
195.8 (b)
234.2 (b)
61.7 (ns)
20.8 (c)
24.0 (ab)
10.3 (b)
63.9 (a)
40.9 (ab)
Data at 62 months after planting.†We exclude from statistical test due to less than three individuals remained.
Different letters indicate significant differences among species in each treatment by ANOVA with Bonferroni’s test ().
