Biomass Content And Biodiversity Of Tropical Peat Swamp Forest Under Various Land Cover Conditions
| Main Authors: | Jaya, Adi, J. Siregar, Ulfah, Massijaya, M.Y. |
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IPB (Bogor Agricultural University)
, 2010
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http://repository.ipb.ac.id/handle/123456789/3804 |
Daftar Isi:
- Tropical peatland provides very important firnctions that are vitally linked to conservatia issues, especially carbon storage and sequestration, which influence global climate chanp These peatlands, howevq are also subject to various land use pressures including actim forestry development, agricultural drainage, energy and horticultural uses. Research on p swamp forest biomass and biodiversity has been carried out within several land cover Vpac namely natural forest, logged over forest, and ex-fire area. Destructive methods wen employed within I Ox I0 mzplots established within study area with 3 replications. Samples? each organ such as trunk, branch, twigs and leaves were taken for water content analysis. Th results show that there is a significant diference in above ground biomass between the natura peat swamp forest, logged over forest and ex-fire area. The average amount of abovegrom biomass was between 400 and 900 tonnes/ha for natural peat swamp forest,fiom 240 to 4l-4 tonnesha for logged over forest, from 210 to 460 tonnes/ha for an ex-fire 1997 area m between 15 and 21 tonnesha for area twice affected byfire. Although the peat swamp form vegetation stores signzjkant amounts of carbon, much larger amounts, ranging between 2,41rl and 2 700 tonnesha, most ofwhich is in thepeat.