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Biodiversity of indonesia
The riches of flora in Indonesia
a. Plant diversity in the tropical forest
Trees are the most common life form.
Trees consist of various shape and dimention,
from the smallest on the forest floor, until
giant tree of 80 m.
the examples are the order of nutmeg, black
wood and mangosteen.
Another striking property of this forest is
finding of liana, big herb, such as ginger,
banana and marantaceae
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b. Plant diversity in seasonal forest
There are not found liana, fern and orchid. The
dispersion of seasonal forest in Indonesia
forms group of small forest which located
among other vegetation types. Example is
found in baluran park, East Java.
They are many kind of trees in seasonal forest
in Indonesia which produce wood, oil, and
food such as teak tree, sandalwood,
eucalyptus, walnut and tamarin tree
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c. Plant diversity in savanna forest land
Savanna is found in dry region in Indonesia,
in general is used as hunting place ang
grzing field. The predominant plants are
grass and herb while trees are rarely
found. In general plants which are mostly
found are xerophytes
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Fauna riches in Indonesia
a. The spreading of fauna in the west Indonesia
Region
Fauna in west indonesian region has characteristic:
1. Many found the kind of big mammal, except
pocked mammal
2. The diversity colourful is low
3. Found kind of monkey
4. Found endemic mammals such as horned
rhinoceros, orang utan, bear, siamang, tarsius,
bekantan, kukang
5. Found endemic bird such as jalak bali, white
eagle
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b. The sprending of fauna in the east Indonesia
region
Fauna in the east indonesian region has the
characteristic
1. Many pouked mammals (marsupials) are
found, while big mammal are rarely raterary
found
2. The diversity of colourful birds is very high
3. No spesies of monkey
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c. The sprending of fauna in the between
west and east Indonesia region
Fauna in the between west and east
Indonesia region has the characteristic
1. Highly enemic animals, such as komodo
dragon, deer-hogs, anoa