MANAJEMEN HUTAN TROPIKA Journal of Tropical Forest Management
Vol. 20 No. 1 (2014)

Habitat Preferences, Distribution Pattern, and Root Weight Estimation of Pasak Bumi (Eurycoma longifolia Jack.)

Siti Masitoh Kartikawati (Graduate School of Bogor Agricultural University, Dramaga Main Road, Campus IPB Dramaga, Bogor, Indonesia 16680)
Ervizal Amir Muhammad Zuhud (Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Eco-tourism, Faculty of Forestry IPB, Academic Ring Road, Campus IPB Dramaga, Bogor, Indonesia 16680)
Agus Hikmat (Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Eco-tourism, Faculty of Forestry IPB, Academic Ring Road, Campus IPB Dramaga, Bogor, Indonesia 16680)
Hariadi Kartodihardjo (Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry IPB, Academic Ring Road, Campus IPB Dramaga, Bogor, Indonesia 16680)
Munawar Fuadi (Faculty of Forestry, Tanjung Pura University, Imam Bonjol Street, Pontianak, Indonesia 78124)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Apr 2014

Abstract

Pasak bumi (Eurycoma longifolia Jack) is one of non timber forest products with “indeterminate” conservation status and commercially traded in West Kalimantan. The research objective was to determine the potential of pasak bumi root per hectare and its ecological condition under natural habitat. Root weight of E. longifolia Jack was estimated using simple linear regression and exponential equation with stem diameter and height as independent variables. The results showed that the individual number of the population was 114 with the majority in seedling stage with 71 individuals (62.28%). The distribution was found in clumped pattern. Conditions of the habitat could be described as follows: daily average temperature of 25.6oC, daily average relative humidity of 73.6%, light intensity of 0.9 klx, and red-yellow podsolic soil with texture ranged from clay to sandy clay. The selected estimator model for E. longifolia Jack root weight used exponential equation with stem height as independent variable using the equation of Y= 21.99T0,010 and determination coefficient of 0.97. After height variable was added, the potential of E. longifolia Jack minimum root weight that could be harvested per hectare was 0.33 kg.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jmht

Publisher

Subject

Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry

Description

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika is a periodic scientific articles and conceptual thinking of tropical forest management covering all aspects of forest planning, forest policy, utilization of forest resources, forest ergonomics, forest ecology, forest inventory, silviculture, and management of ...