Anthropogenic impacts on lowland tropical peatland biogeochemistry

S Page, S Mishra, F Agus, G Anshari… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical peatlands store around one-sixth of the global peatland carbon pool (105
gigatonnes), equivalent to 30% of the carbon held in rainforest vegetation. Deforestation …

Restoration of degraded tropical peatland in Indonesia: A review

TW Yuwati, D Rachmanadi, Pratiwi, M Turjaman… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tropical peatlands are fragile ecosystems with an important role in conserving biodiversity,
water quality and availability, preventing floods, soil intrusion, erosion and sedimentation …

Climate change mitigation potential of wetlands and the cost-effectiveness of their restoration

P Taillardat, BS Thompson, M Garneau… - Interface …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The cost-effective mitigation of climate change through nature-based carbon dioxide
removal strategies has gained substantial policy attention. Inland and coastal wetlands …

Mapping cropland extent of Southeast and Northeast Asia using multi-year time-series Landsat 30-m data using a random forest classifier on the Google Earth Engine …

AJ Oliphant, PS Thenkabail, P Teluguntla… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cropland extent maps are useful components for assessing food security. Ideally, such
products are a useful addition to countrywide agricultural statistics since they are not …

Degradation of Southeast Asian tropical peatlands and integrated strategies for their better management and restoration

S Mishra, SE Page, AR Cobb, JSH Lee… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
About half of the world's tropical peatlands occur in Southeast (SE) Asia, where they serve
as a major carbon (C) sink. Nearly 80% of natural peatlands in this region have been …

Assessing the health impacts of peatland fires: a case study for Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

SK Uda, L Hein, D Atmoko - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
The conversion of Indonesian tropical peatlands has been associated with the recurring
problems of peatland fires and smoke affecting humans and the environment. Yet, the local …

The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?

KMA Chan, T Satterfield - People and Nature, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

Tropical forest landscape restoration in Indonesia: A review

Y Indrajaya, TW Yuwati, S Lestari, B Winarno… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Indonesia has the second-largest biodiversity of any country in the world. Deforestation and
forest degradation have caused a range of environmental issues, including habitat …

Effects of distance from canal and degradation history on peat bulk density in a degraded tropical peatland

AL Sinclair, LLB Graham, EI Putra, BH Saharjo… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over recent decades, the combination of deforestation, peat drainage and fires have
resulted in widespread degradation of Southeast Asia's tropical peatlands. These …

[PDF][PDF] Utilization of peatlands based on local wisdom and community welfare in Riau Province, Indonesia

A Syahza, D Bakce, B Nasrul, R Mustofa - International Journal of …, 2020 - academia.edu
Accepted: 2 October 2020 The majority of regions in Riau Province are coastal areas and
many communities live on land that is dominated by peat. Peat ecosystems have unique …