Ecotourism development impacts on plant diversity in a cultural park of Setu Babakan, Jakarta Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract Improving ecotourism areas was a part of the strategy to the welfare of local people, but its would be impacted by their local knowledge to maintain plant diversity-related, alongside the tourism attitude has shown to their surroundings unfriendly. The aim of this research is to discover the plant diversity index (H’) and Evenness (E). For the data collection method, the line transect was carried out by plotting the site where each site of location research has a size of 20x20 m, and the lake and the road on the side of the location were the object research. The result of this research obtained at least 83 plants species in all areas, which each of site of research were the lake of site is H’= 2.377 and the road of site is H’ = 2.887, whereas E = 0.118 in the lake of site and the road of site is E = 0.084. Therefore, the ecotourism paradigm would be increased to the welfare of local people and its part of sustainable development.