Overview
- Provides a review of tropical peatland in Southeast Asia
- Discusses the carbon–water cycle, biodiversity and monitoring-sensing-modeling on carbon flux and storage
- Furnishes a good introduction to sustainable peatland management
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This book is an excellent resource for scientists, political decision makers, and students interested in the impact of peatlands on climate change and ecosystem function, containing a plethora of recent research results such as monitoring-sensing-modeling for carbon–water flux/storage, biodiversity and peatland management in tropical regions. It is estimated that more than 23 million hectares (62 %) of the total global tropical peatland area are located in Southeast Asia, in lowland or coastal areas of East Sumatra, Kalimantan, West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak and Southeast Thailand. Tropical peatland has a vital carbon–water storage function and is host to a huge diversity of plant and animal species. Peatland ecosystems are extremely vulnerable to climate change and the impacts of human activities such as logging, drainage and conversion to agricultural land. In Southeast Asia, severe episodic droughts associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, in combination with over-drainage, forest degradation, and land-use changes, have caused widespread peatland fires and microbial peat oxidation. Indonesia's 20 Mha peatland area is estimated to include about 45–55 GtC of carbon stocks. As a result of land use and development, Indonesia is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases (2–3 Gtons carbon dioxide equivalent per year), 80 % of which is due to deforestation and peatland loss. Thus, tropical peatlands are key ecosystems in terms of the carbon–water cycle and climate change.
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Tropical Peatland
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Peat Formation and It’s Property
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Ecosystem in Peatland
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Water Condition and Management in Peatland
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tropical Peatland Ecosystems
Editors: Mitsuru Osaki, Nobuyuki Tsuji
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55681-7
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55680-0Published: 16 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56675-5Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55681-7Published: 07 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 651
Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations, 182 illustrations in colour
Topics: Earth System Sciences, Climate Change Management and Policy, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Landscape Ecology