Source: SEAMEO BIOTROP's Research Grant | 2016
Abstract:
The disturbance of forest
from human activities leads to the repercussion to flora, fauna and
sustainability of forest areas. One of the activity is mining, for example open
pit mining. The environmental impact of this activity leads to massive land
degradation and heavy environmental damages.
Therefore, each mining
company must restore the forest or provide a reclamation in ex-mining areas.
This research is aimed to develop the success indicator index of post mining
reclamation based on several factors, namely, carbon stock, leaf area index
(LAI), top atmospheric temperature (TOA), diversity of vegetation, diversity of
bird and soil microorganism.
The result shows that the
highest reclamation index is located in reclamation area 1995 about 0.606,
while the lowest index value is in reclamation area 2013 about 0.247. In
addition, the success indicator index of post mining recovery based on priority
ranks are including H’ value of vegetation, leaf area index (LAI), IS value of
vegetation, soil microorganism, air temperature, carbon stock, IS value of
bird, and H’ value of bird respectively.