The generic richness of rainforest trees and saplings was strongly negatively correlated with human induced disturbance and weakly correlated with fragment area and altitude. Fragments with relatively less disturbance were more similar in tree and sapling composition than disturbed fragments and had a higher density of rainforest trees and saplings. Forest fragments with greater levels of human disturbance were dominated by non-rainforest and disturbance adapted species. Some species seem to be on the decline and prone to local extinction. Human disturbance is the principal predictor of floristic composition in these rainforest fragments

The immediate causes of concern are the continued illegal harvest of timber from fragments that are under the ownership of the forest department as well as those that are privately owned, the lack of enforcement in protecting these forest fragments from further disturbance, ensuring the decrease in dependence by people on the fragments and lack of suitable knowledge in identifying species sensitive to disturbance.