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Post-Fire Vegetation Regeneration of Bris Soil and Gelam Forests of
Terengganu
Nurfatin Syazwana binti Ayob
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof Dr. Jamilah binti Mohd Salim@Halim
Bachelor of Applied Science
(Biodiversity Conservation and Management)
School of Marine and Environmental Sciences
BRIS Soil has low water retention ability making the ecosystem subjected to
drought and exposed to wildfire. Fire creates open area and has explicit effect
on sprouting and seedling survival. However, there is lack of study on effect of
post fire on vegetative regeneration of plant for Gelam forests and BRIS Soil
specifically in Dungun and Setiu, Terengganu. Therefore, the aims of this study
were to determine vegetation composition on BRIS Soil following fire
occurrence and to compare species composition with original vegetation.
20m²x25m² plot was established in site 1 and site 2 and vegetation frequency
was recorded. From the result, 98.6% of vegetation in site 1 was composed of
grasses and 66.9% of vegetation in site 2 was herbs. As for comparison, there
were changes in vegetation composition as secondary succession took placed.
The findings can be helpful in forming management plan for conservation and
restoration of both ecosystems.
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