NATURAL RESOURCE FUNCTIONS, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF T ROPICAL PEATLANDS
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NATURAL RESOURCE FUNCTIONS, NATURAL RESOURCE FUNCTIONS, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF MANAGEMENT OF T T ROPICAL PEATLANDS ROPICAL PEATLANDS Task achievements, problems and future plans in the study of carbon fluxes on peat surfaces in pristine, developed, and mismanaged tropical peat
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NATURAL RESOURCE FUNCTIONS, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF T ROPICAL PEATLANDS. Task achievements, problems and future plans in the s tudy of carbon fluxes on peat surfaces in pristine, developed, and mismanaged tropical peat. Task achievements November 1999 - September 2000 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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NATURAL RESOURCE FUNCTIONS, NATURAL RESOURCE FUNCTIONS, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF MANAGEMENT OF TTROPICAL ROPICAL PEATLANDSPEATLANDS
Task achievements, problems and future plans in the study of carbon fluxes on peat surfaces in pristine, developed, and mismanaged tropical peat
Task achievementsNovember 1999 - September 2000
o Natural Laboratory (Plots 0, 1A, 1B)o Kalampangan (Kereng Bangkirai)/Marang
village
March 2001 - October 2002o Fire scars (PLG)o Clear felled, but not burned forest (PLG)o Canals (PLG)o Forest (PLG)
March 2003o Diurnal pneumatophore fluxes (PLG forest)o Peatlands (Sarawak)
March 2003 ->
Diurnal pneumatophore gas fluxes (PLG forest)
March 2003 ->
Peatlands at Sarawak
MARDI/Sessang & CRAUN/Mukah Peat management sites:
Peat swamp forest site
Felling & stacking treatment (open peat)
Water management area (open peat)
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Crops production peat sites:
Pineapple (Ananas comosus) field
Noni (Morinda Citrifolia) orchard
(Sago plantation)
(Oil palm plantation)
Improved machinery
ProblemsFieldwork & data
August - October 2002 sample collection from PLG canals & pneumatophore method testing destroyed
o gas leaked out during transportation in the plane gargo hold
Fires (2002) destroyed regrowing forest at PLG Peat watertable data is urgently needed
Analysis of CH4 samples in Finland Transportation logistics Restricted number of samples Expensive
Financing Shortage of funds in STRAPEAT Submitted proposals have failed
o Academy of Finlando Ministry for Foreign Affairs FIN (?)
Recent progress in problematic issuesField work New sites accessible in CRAUN sago research site at
Mukah
Analysis of CH4 samples At least Sarawak samples can be in future analysed in
Kuching CRAUN analytical laboratoryoProblems connected to logistics will likely
disappearoWork based on cooperation i.e. money is not
limiting studies
Financing Proposals
o Academy of Finland (May 03)o EU proposal (Sept 03)o Foundations
Institutionso IUFRO (Bogor)
o Interested to make joint proposal on tropical peat restoration to EU
o Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Finland)o …
Future plans
Soon
Soon
Research
Studies at Sarawak
o Sago plantations (Mukah)
o Water management area (Sessang)
o Oil palm plantations
Start of gas chromatography analysis at Sarawak
Plans included into new proposals
Future plans (cont.)
Soon
Soon
