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Expert System for Terrestrial Vegetation Distribution, Potential Impact and Mitigation Abatement Measures

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The tropical rainforest of Malaysia holds one of the richest flora in the world. The favourable climate has produced flora of amazing richness and variety. Terrestrial vegetation of tropical rainforests is an important feature of the environment. Plants play a major role in the environment and conservation of a particular environment depends fundamentally on the maintenance of existing plants and their communities and hierarchies. Interference in the balance of the ecosystem may produce radical changes that lead to progressive deviations from the original situation. Therefore, the application of a computer technology in the form of an expert system (ES) will be able to help in the analysis and management of the EIA information. The ES is named VEGEVIC. Application of the system will lead to greater consistency in the application of EIA through implementation of a standard approach.

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  1. Engineering and Forestry Faculty, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor D.E., Malaysia

    S. Vikneswaran Nair, Mohammed Daud, Nathan Ganapathi & Abdul Rahman Ramli

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Vikneswaran Nair, S., Daud, M., Ganapathi, N. et al. Expert System for Terrestrial Vegetation Distribution, Potential Impact and Mitigation Abatement Measures. Environ Monit Assess 58, 213–225 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006077216780

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