Potential of establishing dipterocarp plantations using the plant succession concept-based strategies.
1993
Dalmacio R.V.
The rapid degradation of the Philippine forests demands fast but effective actions in rehabilitating those destroyed while at the same time managing and conserving the remaining ones to sustain provisions of multifarious direct and indirect benefits to the present and future generations. On the aspect of rehabilitation, reforestation plays a major role. In this paper, two emerging approaches to forestation (Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR), and Accelerated (ACPS) Pioneer-Climax Series) were discussed. These approaches are considered ecologically sound and cost-effective and have the potential to revert some of the grasslands back to dipterocarp forests or plantations. ANR has been verified in the field to be very cost-effective although it may have limited application as far as timber production is concerned. It is now institutionalized at DENR [Department of Environment and Natural Resources] as one of its alternative forestation approaches especially for protection forests. On the other hand, the efficacy of APCs strategy has not yet been formally verified in the field although some research findings indicate its potential for establishing plantations of dipterocarps and other climax tree species.
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