Abstract Peat swamp forest is an important ecosystem in global climate change through its high carbon content and role as a sink. In peat forest, there near-closed cycle of nutrients including carbon. order to better understand the rate plant litter production decomposition, study was carried out three secondary forests Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Litterfall collection undertaken using trap ...

First posted October 21, 2021 For additional information, contact: Center Director, Virginia and West Water Science CenterU.S. Geological Survey1730 East Parham RoadRichmond, VA 23228 The Great Dismal Swamp is a peat wetland in the Coastal Plain of southeastern northeastern North Carolina. Timber harvesting construction ditches to drain swamp facilitate are collectively implicated changes that ...

The effects of the fires that burned over 4.7 million ha of Indonesia’s tropical forests during 1997 and 1998 are largely unknown. We assess the immediate impacts of these fires on five forest areas representing several different habitats in Kalimantan 1-2 months after the fires went out. Comparisons of transects in burned and unburned forest areas were conducted at three sites: Tanjung Puting ...

Kosipe, an upland valley at 2000 m altitude in the Owen Stanley Ranges of southeastern New Guinea, is known for the discovery of large stone waisted blades dated to 31400 cal a BP. The purpose of these tools and the nature of occupation are unknown. The altitude is too high for most food crops today and may have stood close to the treeline during the last glaciation. Three pollen and charcoal d...

Abstract Pressure on peat swamp forests in Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) Regency for timber extraction, agricultural land, oil palm plantations, and pulp paper plantation cause degradation of forest. Communities living around OKI are affected by changes Covid-19 pandemic. This study aimed to examine the livelihood strategies communities due The sustainable analysis was used as an analytical framewor...