Seyedmahmoud Monemian
Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany
Title: Evaluation of the abundance and frequency of the regeneration status of the primary forest in the Cuc Phuong National Park in Vietnam
Biography
Biography: Seyedmahmoud Monemian
Abstract
Regeneration of tree species plays a crucial role to ensure the sustainability of forest and this is more significant when it comes to the multiple functions of forest and their conflicts such as animal browsing, timber harvest, sustainable use of indigenous people from non-timber forest products etc. The study was conducted in Cuc Phuong National Park (CPNP) in Vietnam to analyze the regeneration status in the primary forest. The concentric sample plots were established in the primary forest and whole study took around three weeks and the information was provided by the inventory of the core zone in CPNP. The data was collected from inventory forms and were transferred later on to Microsoft Excel for further analysis. In this study, Importance Value Index (IVI) of the species found in the inventory was analyzed which represents the abundance and frequency of the plant species. Furthermore, population structure of the primary forest was evaluated based on the inventory data. The results demonstrated that Streblus macrophyllus is the most abundant regeneration in the studied area where as many species other species are low in number in the studied plots in the primary forest of CPNP. Moreover, there is no regeneration for 23 tree species out of 75 species found in the sample plots. Additionally, some information about the nursery and plantation of tree species was provided through interview with Vietnamese forest experts.