DYNAMICS OF CHANGES IN VEGETATION COVER AFTER ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION ACTIVITIES IN 2009 IN MOUNT CIREMAI NATIONAL PARK, WEST JAVA

• Main Author: Sayyid Difa, Haikal
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/68722
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The Mount Ciremai National Park area has an important and strategic role in preserving biodiversity. One of the disturbing threats in TNGC is forest fires that always occur and fluctuate throughout the year, resulting in changes in vegetation cover every year. This study aims to determine the classification of Mount Ciremai National Park vegetation cover and determine changes in Mount Ciremai National Park vegetation cover during the last ten years after ecosystem restoration activities in 2009. The study was carried out in January-May 2022, located in the Mount Ciremai National Park Area, West Java Province with an area of about 14,841 ha. The vegetation cover classification method used is a supervised classification. The Mount Ciremai National Park area can be divided into four types of vegetation cover, namely primary forest, secondary forest, shrubs, and open land. These four vegetation covers experience quite high fluctuations throughout the year due to forest fires and ecosystem restoration activities carried out by Mount Ciremai National Park managers every year. This study concludes that during 2011-2021, the Mount Ciremai National Park area has four types of vegetation cover with primary forest vegetation cover area tending to increase by 32.49%, secondary forest tending to decrease by 48.24%, and shrubs and open land which fluctuated due to forest fires with a decrease of 10.13% and 9.05%, respectively. There are two areas that experience hampered succession process and require special treatment, namely the Pasawahan and Lambosir areas.