Distribution of climbers in Kawang’s Forest Reserve
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Forest ReserveHajah Asir, Farah Wahidah S., Siew Hsi a B., Man Tien C., Erma Ery Erda S. Universiti Malaysia Sabah, SS10203K: bstract This report presents the establishment of the biodata base and the investigation of biolo gical diversity of the selected reserve and prote cted , . forest at Kawang Papar in the state of Sabah We have conductive formative analysis and obser vation aimed at understanding the biological diver sity of the KawangForest Reserve especially the climbers species and to establish . , the biodat a base of this site In this setting the ecolog ical investigations are made by studying the study plot of 10x10m permanen t plots where the specimen of each species found there are further used to help us develop research in the increase of population and species available in Kawang fores t with field identification and taxonomic group s of the flora and fauna in that . area ntroduction : aterials and Method . : 2 1 study area Sit uated in Kawang Forest Reserve Class 3 in Kota . Kinabalu Forestry District which is about 20km away from the K K city . : 2 2 Establis hment of plot A tot al of 7 plots of 10mx10m were . estabished permanantlyby marking of the plots using tags . : 2 3 Collection of Specimen All climbers species were collected in . plastic bags and labeled Ident ifica tion of climbers were identified Results Conclusion References Species Features Description Flower s Leaves’ s vein Size o f leav es (cm) Leaves texture Width Length 1 None Network 8 25 Smooth Waxy and smooth leaves, thick cuticle leaf 2 None Parallel 20-30 10-30 Smooth Non-woody stem, curly, long leaves, branches leaves 3 None None Soft young shoot curl up, Type of fern, coil, no leaf, non woody stem 4 None network 5-6 6-8 5 none network 3-7 1-7 Rough Woody and thorny stem, curly young, woody stem, shoot growing out backwards surface. 6 none network 10-20 8-15 Thorny stem, waxy surface and smooth, smooth fur and big leaves 7 none Parallel 2-4 1-1.5 smooth Furry stem, small leave and furry .: ’ Table 1 1 the featur es and characteristic s of the climbers species found at Kawang s Forest Reserve : ’ , Figure 1 Distribution of climbers in Kawan g s Forest Reserve . Papar Sabah • , ; , fro m fig ure 1 the distrib ution of climbe rs is the high est at 3 dif fer ent plot plot 1 plo t 4 and , . plot 6 maxim um 2 diffe rent speci es in each plot •the graph of cumulativ e distr ibuti on shows the increase in popul ation of the climbers in . , identified stud ied plots Conti nuall y the graph stil l does not reach its satur ation poin t as the . distr ibuti on is still incre asing There are seven plots being studied in taxono mic identific ation . , of the climber s species Thus consi derin g this secti on of limited numb ers of plots with the numb er , %. of differen t species of the climbers which is seven speci es the probabi lity obtain ed is only 1 • - the size of the leaves of the speci es shows the maximum size that was obtai ned is 10 30cm in lengt h - . and 20 30cm in width This is mainly influen ce by the environ menta l factors in habitats of the . leave s The big leaves provide greate r total surface for the plant to absorb greate r level of , . sunlig ht wat er and so on the 2 nd ( ) - , species nam e nee ded has non w oody character thus it won t be able - . , to crawl highe r than the woody stem climbers Thus it require s great tot al surfac e to obtain . suffi cient sunlig ht and water to survive in its habitat iscussion , - Climbers are depen dent non flowering plants that basicall y survive by , crawling on tall trees enable the absorption of sunlight for the species to . compete with other plants The identification of the climber s in the reser ve , forest is to analyze the adaptations and distribution of this specie s its , characteristics as well as the biodat a base for the area at which the . climbers may devel op the increase in its cumulative distribution
