Regrowth of secondary vegetation after the ‘Borneo fire’ of 1982–1983

Nykvist, Nils

doi:10.1017/s0266467400009470

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“…Based on vegetation studies in burned forests, we know that the increase in pioneer herbs and woody plants in the forest understorey is associated with a near complete destruction of the original understorey vegetation by the fire (Woods 1989;Nykvist 1996;Nieuwstadt 2002;Cochrane 2003;. Overall, it is clear that habitat heterogeneity, both in terms of vegetation structure and plant species diversity and composition, is strongly reduced in burned forests.…”

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Bird Community Changes in Response to Single and Repeated Fires in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest of Eastern Borneo

Slik

Balen

2006

Biodivers Conserv

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Abstract. Our current understanding of bird community responses to tropical forest fires is limited and strongly geographically biased towards South America. Here we used the circular plot method to carry out complete bird inventories in undisturbed, once burned (1998) and twice burned forests (1983 and 1998) in East Kalimantan (Indonesia). Additionally, environmental variables were measured within a 25 m radius of each plot. Three years after fire the number of birds and bird species were similar for undisturbed and burned forests, but species diversity and turnover were significantly lower in the burned forests. The bird species composition also differed significantly between undisturbed and burned forests, with a strong decline of closed forest preferring bird species accompanied by a strong increase in degraded forest preferring species in burned forests. These differences were strongly related to differences in environmental conditions such as shifts in vegetation cover and layering and differences in ground and understorey vegetation structure. We also found significant shifts in body mass distribution, foraging height and feeding guilds between the bird communities in unburned and burned forests. Surprisingly, repeated burning did not lead to increasing impoverishment of the avifauna, and both once and twice burned forests still contained most of the bird species that were also present in undisturbed forest, even though their densities were considerably lowered.

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Section: Associations Between Habitat Variables and Bird Species Compmentioning

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Bird Community Changes in Response to Single and Repeated Fires in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest of Eastern Borneo

Slik

Balen

2006

Biodivers Conserv

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“…The region is a biodiversity hotspot and is highly threatened by deforestation (Sodhi et al, 2004(Sodhi et al, , 2010. However, research on forest recovery here is comparatively lacking as compared to that in the Neotropics, and past research has largely focused on the early stages (1-15 years) of forest recovery (Jepsen, 2006;Nykvist, 1996;Ohtsuka, 1999Ohtsuka, , 2001Slik et al, 2002;Yassir et al, 2010, but see Brearley et al, 2004;Turner et al, 1997).…”

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Slow recovery of a secondary tropical forest in Southeast Asia

Chua

Ramage

Ngo

et al. 2013

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…The results suggest that the AGB dynamics soon after forest fires depends on the type of tree species (short-lived or extremely short-lived) that dominate after the fires at such sites. In addition, such secondary forests consisting of only a few pioneer tree species can not accumulate large quantities of AGB 9,12 which was reported over 500 Mg ha -1 in primary forest at about 50 km northwest from the BSEF 22 . …”

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“…There are also some reports of forest structure and species composition in such areas 20 . However, information on naturally regenerated vegetation at an early stage after fires, in relation to biomass recovery, is still limited 4,9 .…”

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Biomass Recovery of Naturally Regenerated Vegetation after the 1998 Forest Fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Hiratsuka

Toma²,

Diana

et al. 2006

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After the 1998 forest fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, biomass recovery of naturally regenerated vegetation was estimated in order to evaluate the initial secondary succession patterns of the burned land. We established research plots in naturally regenerated vegetation that included pioneer tree species, and the dominant pioneer species were Homalanthus populneus, Macaranga gigantea and M. hypoleuca, Mallotus paniculatus, Melastoma malabathricum, Piper aduncum, or Trema cannabina and T. orietalis. Annual tree censuses over 4 years (from 2000 to 2003) showed that on plots where the initially dominant tree species were M. malabathricum and T. cannabina and T. orietalis, they tended to disappear, and were replaced with M. gigantea and M. hypoleuca. In contrast, on plots where the initially dominant species were M. gigantea and M. hypoleuca, M. paniculatus, or P. aduncum, they continued to dominate 5 years after the fire. We classified tree species that were initially dominant but disappeared within 5 years after the fire as extremely short-lived tree species. The aboveground biomass of trees (AGB) averaged 12.3 Mg ha -1 (ranging from 9.2 to 17.0 Mg ha -1 ) in 2000 and 15.9 Mg ha -1 (ranging from 7.4 to 25.0 Mg ha -1 ) in 2003. Between 2000 and 2003, some plots exhibited an increase in AGB and some a decrease in AGB. In the plots dominated by M. gigantea and M. hypoleuca, the AGB increased to over 20 Mg ha -1 , but other plots accumulated significantly less AGB in the 5 years following the fire. These results suggest that the pattern of AGB accumulation in secondary forests is strongly dependent on the dominant pioneer tree species.

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Regrowth of secondary vegetation after the ‘Borneo fire’ of 1982–1983

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Bird Community Changes in Response to Single and Repeated Fires in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest of Eastern Borneo

Bird Community Changes in Response to Single and Repeated Fires in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest of Eastern Borneo

Slow recovery of a secondary tropical forest in Southeast Asia

Biomass Recovery of Naturally Regenerated Vegetation after the 1998 Forest Fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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