@article {614, title = {Man-made dipterocarp forest in Sumatra}, journal = {Agroforestry Systems}, volume = {2}, year = {1985}, note = {This paper is a slightly revised version of an internal report prepared for BIOTROP (SEAMEO - ASEAN Center for Tropical Biology). The project has been funded by BIOTROP, while the author is a French consultant to that organization.}, month = {June 1994}, pages = {103-127}, abstract = {

Traditional plantations of Shorea javanica in southern Sumatra deserve mention on three main points:

  1. it is a rare case in Indonesia of successful cultivation of an indigenous species. This species being a Dipterocarp is an even more attractive reason: Dipterocarps are in the paradoxical situation of being the largest family of timber trees in natural forests of tropical Asia but are almost never used for silvicultural purposes;
  2. the tree is grown in association with many other useful trees to constitute an agroforestry system of both cash and subsistence incomes; and
  3. such plantations represent a good potential for the production of natural resin in the humid tropics.
}, keywords = {agroforestry, Dipterocarpaceae, reforestation, resin, Sumatra}, doi = {10.1007/BF00131269}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00131269}, author = {E. Torquebiau} }