Abstract Tropical peat swamp forest is one of the wetland ecosystems on tropical peatlands with many ecological, economic, and socio-cultural functions. In Indonesia, have been experiencing deforestation degradation due to land clearing for plantations agriculture fires. Central Kalimantan, especially in ex-area 1 million hectares mega rice project (MRP)n 1990s, hydrological restoration done by...

Abstract Global tropical peat swamp forest ecosystems mostly are found in Indonesia. However, these unique yet fragile subject to deforestation and degradation due fires land conversion. Peat forests well known for their ecosystem services related global climate mitigation because they store carbon inside very vulnerable fires. Another direct function is providing various needs the indigenous p...

Tropical peat swamp forest becomes degraded through removal and drainage, usually followed by land use change fire. Restoration of the peatland requires rewetting, which involves canal blocking water level management. The purpose is to rewet so that peat-forming trees can re-establish or crops be grown with minimal greenhouse gas emissions subsidence. In addition, wet more fire resistant than d...

During the 1997/98 El Niño-induced drought peatland fires in Indonesia may have released 13-40% of the mean annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuels. One major unknown in current peatland emission estimations is how much peat is combusted by fire. Using a light detection and ranging data set acquired in Central Kalimantan, Borneo, in 2007, one year after the severe peatland fires of 200...