Relationship between Economic Value and Species diversity of Timber Resources in a Hill Forest in Peninsular Malaysia

• Main Authors: Abd. Ghani, Awang Noor, Ibrahim, Faridah Hanum, Tuan Ibrahim, Tuan Marina
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7487/1/Relationship%20between%20Economic%20Value%20and%20Species%20diversity%20of%20Timber%20Resources%20in%20a%20Hill%20Forest%20in%20Peninsular%20Malaysia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7487/; http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/1313

Timber resource is a major component of tropical forest and usually undervalued economically. This paper attempts to examine the relationship between economic value and species diversity of a hill dipterocarp forest in Peninsular Malaysia. The rank-abundance curve described a lognormal distributio...