Author: Petroleum Corporation of JamaicaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
International Peat Society Symposium on Tropical Peat Resources
Author: Petroleum Corporation of JamaicaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Tropical Peat Resources - Prospects and Potential
Author: Tropical Peat Resources
Author: International Peat Society Symposium on Tropical Peat and Peatlands for Development
Author: Tropical Peatland Ecosystems
Author: Mitsuru OsakiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 4431556818
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
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.
Peatlands
Author: I.P. MartiniPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080468055
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In the past two decades there has been considerable work on global climatic change and its effect on the ecosphere, as well as on local and global environmental changes triggered by human activities. From the tropics to the Arctic, peatlands have developed under various geological conditions, and they provide good records of global and local changes since the Late Pleistocene.The objectives of the book are to analyze topics such as geological evolution of major peatlands basins; peatlands as self sustaining ecosystems; chemical environment of peatlands: water and peat chemistry; peatlands as archives of environmental changes; influence of peatlands on atmosphere: circular complex interactions; remote sensing studies of peatlands; peatlands as a resource; peatlands degradation, restoration, plus more. * Presents an interdisciplinary approach, with an emphasis on Earth Science, and addresses the need for intergration between subdisciplines and the developing of new approaches* Synthesizes the evolutionary, ecological, and chemical characteristics of major peatlands, as well as focuses on the environmental changes, from climate changes to surface ares changes due to human activities* Covers topical studies of worldwide interest and provides examples from many different countries
Abstracts
Author: Universitas Gadjah MadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peat
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Proceedings of the International Peat Symposium
Author: International Peat Society. SymposiumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peat
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Tropical Peat
Author: Peat and the Environment 85
Author: International Peat Society. SymposiumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peat
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description