STUDI TENTANG HABITAT DAN PENDUGAAN POPULASI KUSKUS BERTOTOL BIASA (SPILOCUSCUS MACULACTUS DESMAREST, 1803) DI PULAU NUMFOR KABUPATEN BIAK NUMFOR

Artikel ini telah terbit pada jurnal Agroforestri volume X nomor 3 dengan ISSN : 1907-7556; Abstrak : This study aims to determine the population of spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) in the Numfor island of Biak Numfor District. The results showed, that the cuscus population density in sample area is 24 individuals per 87.5 ha with individual density 0.70 per ha. From this number 72.73% are adult individuals while the rest are individual adolescents and baby respectively 18.18% and 9.09%. Distribution of individuals according to sex showed that 54.54% were male individuals and 45.45% female. Vegetation on the island Numfor is primary forest that has reached a climax so that a continuous tree canopy at a level that affects the low density, frequency and dominance of vegetation below it (pole level vegetation, saplings and seedlings). Vegetation levels were 26 species of trees in the dominance Intsia sp., Palaquium amboinensis and Decaspermum fructiosom, as many 24 species of small trees dominated by Canarium hiersetum, Aglaia sp., and Palaquium amboinensis, of saplings of 20 species and dominated Palaquium lobianum, Lepiniopsis ternatensis and Sterculia silinglawi and Seedlings as many 23 species dominated by Aglaia sp., Intsia sp., Pimelodenron amboinicum and Pometia sp.