Our completed study in 2011 on the description of Chini terrestrial vegetation has identified a few locations at Chini that need to be restored. Some recovery of this degraded area has occurred by natural regeneration of the secondary forest. However, to ensure the ecosystem services of Chini as a watershed forest are restored, apart from recovery of its plant species biodiversity, management interventions should be considered.

Our current study deals with the litterfall dynamics, nutrient characteristics, and return concerning the variations of forest stand structures, soil edaphic factors, and microclimate conditions, and also the total biomass loss of the three zones (core, buffer, and transition) at Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve. Forests’ stand structure can be thought of as both a product of forest dynamics and biophysical processes and as a template for biodiversity and ecosystem function. Different tree species composition and forest stand structures give a different capacity of return mass and specific nutrients to the forest floor and as indicators of ecosystem health. This is due to their efficiency of nutrient usage, seasonal factors (climate that gives effects to the flushing phenology), and other environmental factors (heavy wind and heavy rain) which force the shedding of non-senesced leaves.

High-quality litterfall materials, although not very much in quantity, can provide a small pulse of the available nutrients to the forest floor commutes that are beneficial for natural regeneration of degraded areas and also other agricultural-related activities outside the Biosphere Reserve core zone. There is an urgent need to understand nutrient cycling and also budgeting in the different forest ecosystems. the forests stand structure of three management zones of TCBR will be determined so that the understanding about forest growth and habitat potential to us is maximum and will guide us to plan a better sustainable development growth in all donations of all Biosphere Reserve.

The productivity pattern of the three management zones of TCBR as an indicator of ecosystem health is characterized and is expected to provide a guideline to the stakeholder’s Biosphere Reserve in demarcating sites that require restoration or suitable areas for various agro-related activities within the buffer and transition zones.

The biomass loss via standing dead and fallen trees of three management zones of TCBR are examined so that the knowledge of patterns of variation in forest stand structure over time and space can serve as the basis of forest management strategies.