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Naim, Andyson Luna and Abdul Rahman, Amirul Azimin and Sapian, Solehuddin and James Gerusu, Geoffery and Empin, George Bala
(2019)
Natural control on insects biodiversity under rehabilitation and regenerated secondary forest canopies, Sarawak, Malaysia.
International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research, 3 (6).
pp. 82-87.
ISSN 2643-9670
Abstract
Generally, Malaysia are still lacking of research regarding insects biodiversity or the insects order itself, except for
certain order that were important for agriculture and forestry. The study on insects biodiversity been done at two different forest
canopies Rehabilitation Forest and Regenerated Secondary Forest. The insects were captured using four types of methods such as
pitfalls trap, light-trap, yellow-pan trap and sweep net. The trap installed within the study area and continuously monitored
periodically for a period of 10 weeks.There were 4 insects order recorded in Rehabilitation Forest, come from order of Coleoptera
(56%), Homoptera (22%), followed by Hemiptera and Lepidoptera with both order with 11%. With the Shannon-Wiener Index of
Diversity (H')= 1.149 with the species evenness = 0.829.
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