NATURAL REGENERATION OF VEGETATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR GREENING SAND-FILLED RECLAIMED LAND IN SINGAPORE
✍ Scribed by S. K. LEE; K. C. GOH; S. O. YEE
- Book ID
- 101286092
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1085-3278
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✦ Synopsis
Land reclamation projects have been implemented in Singapore to increase the republic's land area. Not all reclaimed lands have been used to date, and some of those that remain idle have been allowed to regenerate. This paper examines one such sand-®lled reclaimed area and studies the pattern of, and factors favouring, the natural regeneration of Casuarina equisetifolia whose seeds come mainly from a row of established mother trees planted by the roadside nearby. Based on the extent of coverage of this species over the reclaimed land and the mean trunk-wood volume build-up after 14 years, natural regeneration of this kind appears to be an eective alternative to the greening of sand-®lled reclaimed land, or any derelict land of this nature, at very low cost.