The world's largest area of tropical peatland ecosystems is found in South-East Asia. These
peatlands have globally significant carbon stocks and play an important role in regional and …

Indonesia's peatlands have been subject to extensive deforestation and degradation
resulting from logging, drainage, fires and conversion to other land uses. A number of …

Forested tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia store at least 42 000 Million metric tonnes (Mt)
of soil carbon. Human activity and climate change threatens the stability of this large pool …

Indonesia contributes significantly to deforestation in Southeast Asia. However, much
uncertainty remains over the relative contributions of various forest‐exploiting sectors to …

Interrelationships between peat and water were studied using a hydropedological modelling
approach for adjacent relatively intact and degraded peatland in Central Kalimantan …

Peatlands are important carbon sinks, therefore their degradation mainly due to lowering of
the water table, has an adverse effect to the carbon cycle and largely burden the …

Extensive degradation of Indonesian peatlands by deforestation, drainage and recurrent
fires causes release of huge amounts of peat soil carbon to the atmosphere. Construction of …

Interrelationships between hydrology and ecology are established for the Air Hitam Laut
watershed in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The developed relational diagram shows …

The status of tropical peatlands, one of Earth's most efficient natural carbon stores, is of
increasing international concern as they experience rising threat from deforestation and …

Peatlands support the daily needs of people in many villages in Indonesia, including in
Central Kalimantan Province. They provide the natural resources to enable fisheries …