TY - JOUR T1 - Man-made dipterocarp forest in Sumatra JF - Agroforestry Systems Y1 - 1985 A1 - E. Torquebiau KW - agroforestry KW - Dipterocarpaceae KW - reforestation KW - resin KW - Sumatra AB -

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.
VL - 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00131269 IS - 2 N1 - 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. U1 - Agroforest Syst ER -