Authors:
J.O. Rieley, S.E. Page
Book:
Proceedings of the 14th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Stockholm
Keywords:
carbon, carbon-dioxide, land-use-change, peat-swamp-forest, plantations
Documentfile:
Rieley, Page 2012: Updated Carbon Budgets Under Different Land Uses on Tropical Peatland in Indonesia
Summary:
Theme IX. Tropical peatlands
SUMMARY
Lowland tropical peat swamp forests are one of the densest carbon stores on earth. Land use change releases large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and dissolved organic carbon and particulate organic carbon into drainage streams and rivers. There are major implications of this for climate change processes, public health and the economy. We provide a reassessment and updating of information on the relative losses and transfers of carbon from peatland in Indonesia converted to oil palm and paper pulp tree plantations compared to the natural ecosystem and that deforested, drained and degraded but unused.