Shrubs enumeration in Sabak Beach, Kelantan

Coastal forest plays a vital role in our ecosystem because of its numerous and varied human use. In Malaysia especially Kelantan, there are a lot of coastal forest that are not recognised or has been introduced as forest that consist of many biodiversity that can be important and useful for development and management of forest. Due to this situation, the study were conducted to identify the shrubs species exist, abundance, density, frequency and diversity occurred and also to describe the soil and water quality parameter at Sabak Beach, Kelantan. All shrubs species were identified and enumerated by using systematic plot sampling method. Diversity index and Abundance parameter was computed to characterise the floristic composition. In total of 3752 shrubs plants representing 28 species belong to 24 genera in 17 families were identified within 0.05 hectare found with total value for Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index (H’) of 1.67 for the entire study area. Most species form the dominant Euphorbiaceae family on loam soil followed by the Capparaceae family with silt soil and the least dominant is sandy soil with species Vitex rotundifolia and Ipomaea pes-caprae. Water quality studies show that only one point have been contaminated. To be conclude, in Sabak beach, Cleome viscosa and Croton bonplandianus have been identified as dominant among all 28 species found in all quadrats where both species are also high in density and frequency. In this case, only certain species can grow and be able to survive in different habitats. In addition, types of soils and water quality in the study area play an important roles for the factors of the tree species that growth around Sabak Beach which it can be seen that during this study area was conducted.