Authors:
Kartika Anggi Hapsari, Siria Biagioni, Tim Jennerjahn, Peter Reimer, Asmadi Saad, Supiandi Sabiham and Hermann Behling
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
disturbance, human-impact, long-term-data, peatland, resilience
Documentfile:
ipc16p553-557a156hapsari.biagioni.etal_.pdf
Summary:
SUMMARY
Despite of the number of studies that have been conducted, knowledge of past human activities on peatlands in Southeast (SE) Asia remains fragmented. Hence, anthropogenic activities on peatlands are considered to be recent. In order to see whether and how human conducted activities on peatland in the past, a palaeoecological study on peatland located close to archaeological site of Malayu Empire was undertaken. The results revealed that human activities on tropical peatland began over a millennium ago. By conducting logging…