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E-book Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands

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Tropical peat accumulation was a primary feature of the Holocene, as well as of thelast glacial period. Peat accumulation in most tropical coastal areas in Southeast Asiacommenced around 4000–5000 BP (Page et al.2006; Anderson and Muller1975).The subcoastal and inland peatlands in Borneo date back to the late Pleistocene(ca. 29,000 BP) (Page et al.2006; Anshari et al.2001, 2004).Tropical peatlands store a huge amount of carbon. Tropical peatlands mayaccount for only 10–12% of the global peatland resource by area, but owing totheir considerable thickness and high carbon content, they store between 50 Gt and70 Gt (16–21%) of peat soil carbon, or about 2–3% of the carbon stored in all soilsglobally (Page et al.2002, 2006).Tropical peat swamp forests in their natural state make an important contributionto regional and global biodiversity (Andriesse1988; Page and Rieley1998) provid-ing a vital, but undervalued, habitat for rare and threatened species, especially birds,mammals, reptiles and freshwaterfish (Ismail1999; Thornton et al.2020).“Untilrecently, peat swamps were assumed to be hostile, acidic places where the biodi-versity was low.”“Officials and developers argue that there is no point conservingthe swamps because there is‘nothing’there. These places don’t have big, sexyanimals, but in almost all cases, when they say a place is species-poor, they’rewrong”(Dennis and Aldhous2004, pp. 396, 398). Posa et al. (2011) documented1524 plant species in peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia, of which 172 wereendemic species, and 219 species of freshwaterfish of which 80 species wereendemic.Peatl andsha ve beenexploitedfor a longtime,star ting withsmall-scale clearingand coll ectionof nontimberproductsby localpeople. Fisheries, small-scaleshif tingcultivation an d rubbercultivation providedprincipal sources of live lihoodfor localpeople(Furukawa 1992). Com merciallogginghas also takenplacein Riau,Su matra,Indonesia, sincethe mid dle of the ninet eenthcenturybut did not seriously disturb the peat swamp forest ecosystem (Mizuno et al.2021). The exploitation of peatlands forthe purpose of oil palm and timber since 1980s, however, accompanied by construc-tion of large-scale drainage projects, has seriously degraded peatlands, resulting inburning and abandonment by settlers.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

634.9 ARD v

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Singapore : Springer Nature., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

224 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789819909063

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634.9

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Forestry

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