Tropical Peatland Forestry: Toward Forest Restoration and Sustainable Use of Wood Resources in Degraded Peatland

Saito, Hideyuki; Gaman, Sampang; Yuda, Prawira; Penyang, None; Shibuya, Masato

doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55681-7_35

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“…Stated that the utilization of tropical peatland forests has contributed to the timber industry, but with a side effect being the massive degradation and deforestation of tropical forest areas. As a result, serious reductions in wood resources and environmental services occur in peat forests, with land managers caught between the needs of timber production, conservation and restoration of environmental services [37].…”

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Utilization of Peatlands Based on Local Wisdom and Community Welfare in Riau Province, Indonesia

Syahza¹,

Suwondo²,

Bakce³

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The majority of regions in Riau Province are coastal areas and many communities live on land that is dominated by peat. Peat ecosystems have unique characteristics, as they are classified as wetland areas, while also possessing regions of terrestrial land. Poor maintenance of these ecosystems can cause a variety of issues such as forest fires, drought, flooding, biodiversity loss, increasing emissions, climate change, and social community changes. The purpose of this paper is to formulate a model of peatland utilization based on local wisdom and community welfare, in an effort to support the sustainable management of peat ecosystems in Riau Province. The main commodities of the coastal community are agriculture, coconut, rubber, oil palm, sago, coffee, cocoa, areca nut. Therefore, an understanding of the use of peatlands is needed. This is to prevent damage to the peatland ecosystem, maintain biodiversity, store carbon, produce oxygen, and manage water. Policies and strategies for managing the peat ecosystem are carried out through the development of socio-economic and community culture to realize people's welfare based on local wisdom. The management and use of peatlands have contributed to the economy, even as the main source of livelihood for coastal communities. Utilization of peatlands based on local wisdom can maintain a sustainable peat ecosystem.

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“…The welfare index in rural areas increases through community-based fighting development [38]. Tropical peatland forest has contributed to the timber industry but has led to degradation and deforestation in massive tropical peat swamp forest areas [37].…”

Section: Peat Land Use Modelmentioning

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Utilization of Peatlands Based on Local Wisdom and Community Welfare in Riau Province, Indonesia

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Suwondo²,

Bakce³

et al. 2020

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“…Shorea , Gonystylus and Dyera ), can subsequently be transplanted once the forest cover is reestablished. Moreover, taxa with high regenerative power can possibly be used in lower cost alternative restoration efforts such as direct seed sowing (Graham et al., ; Saito et al., ) or for creating “woodland islets” by planting many small and dense “islands” of trees which later act as seed sources for the surrounding area (Rey Benayas et al., ). The savings obtained from these lower cost alternatives can be allocated towards costly long‐term monitoring, aftercare and maintenance, important aspects in restoration that are often neglected (Graham et al., ).…”

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Resilience of a peatland in Central Sumatra, Indonesia to past anthropogenic disturbance: Improving conservation and restoration designs using palaeoecology

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1. Tropical peatlands, which provide important functions such as biodiversity provisioning and carbon (C) storage, are currently threatened by land-use conversions.Thus, conservation and restoration efforts are needed to maintain their functions.Conservation concepts aiming to separate human from ecosystems are no longer conceivable. Therefore, understanding peatland resilience to human disturbance, that is the ability of peatland ecosystems to maintain their structure and function despite perturbations and to return to their predisturbance states, can assist with integrating human needs into conservation strategies and improving restoration effectiveness.2. Understanding ecosystem resilience is often impeded by a lack of long-term data, which can be obtained from palaeoecological studies. Located close to the archaeological remains of the Malayu Empire, the Sungai Buluh peatland in Sumatra, Indonesia provides an opportunity to study the resilience of a tropical peatland to past human disturbance. We subjected a 250-cm-long peat core to palynological, charcoal and C content analyses to delineate the anthropogenic impact on the peatland and the ecosystem's response.3. The results revealed that extensive human activities in Sungai Buluh such as logging, grazing/cut-and-carry, and wild-harvesting started soon after humans occupied the vicinity of the peatland c. 1,000 cal yr bp. Even without fire use and cultivation, these activities were able to alter vegetation composition and decrease the peatland's C sequestration capacity. 4. Following site abandonment after the demise of the Malayu Empire at c. 600 cal yr bp, the palaeoecological record suggests that the Sungai Buluh peatland recovered in terms of both floristic composition and C sink function, with the latter recovering faster (c. 60 years) than the former (c. 170 years). 5. Synthesis. The palaeoecological record from Sungai Buluh provides the first evidence of tropical peatland recovery following human disturbance, which can help improve present peatland conservation/restoration strategies. The design of peatland wise-use strategies can mimic the "resilience-friendly" human activities identified in this study. Consideration should also be given to selecting rapidly the 170-year recovery time of the Sungai Buluh peatland suggests that the 60year timeframe currently allocated in most tropical peatland restoration projects may be insufficient. K E Y W O R D S ecosystem function and services, human activities, local policy, natural recovery, palaeoecology and land-use history, peat carbon sink, restoration design, sustainable use | 2475 Journal of Ecology HAPSARI et Al.

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“…Shorea, Gonystylus and Dyera), can subsequently be transplanted once the forest cover is re-established. Moreover, taxa with high regenerative power can possibly be used in lower-cost alternative restoration efforts such as direct seed sowing Saito et al, 2016) or for creating "woodland islets" by planting many small and dense "islands" of trees which later act as seed sources for the surrounding area (Rey . The savings obtained from these lower-cost alternatives can be allocated towards costly long-term monitoring, aftercare and maintenance, important aspects in restoration that are often neglected .…”

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Indonesian coastal wetlands

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As an archipelago country, Indonesia harbors vast area of coastal wetlands such as mangrove and peatland that stores around 50 Gt carbon (C). Indonesian coastal wetlands are also rich in biodiversity, providing habitats for over 2000 species of flora and fauna. However, coastal wetlands in Indonesia potentially sustain significant loss due to inundation following the upcoming rapid sea level rise in addition to landuse change and conversion following rapid population growth in the coastal areas.To reduce the impact of sea level rise and to ensure the sustainability of these ecosystems and their important functions, conservation, management and restoration of Indonesian coastal wetlands are necessary to be conducted. As conservation, management and restoration can be costly while sufficient resources are not always available, effective and efficient strategies are required. For this, a thorough ecological understanding is critical. However, current knowledge relating to coastal wetlands in Indonesia remains a large gap. Moreover, thorough ecological understanding is often difficult to gather as some ecosystem processes and their responses to environmental changes often occur after a long period of time. Therefore, long term ecological studies, such as palaeoecology, are required to conduct.Thereupon, this multi-proxy palaeoecological research that includes was carried out on two Indonesian coastal wetlands, Sungai Buluh peatland in Central Sumatra and Segara Anakan lagoon in Central Java, in order to: (1) improve the insights on the environmental process and dynamics of coastal wetlands in Indonesia as well as the mechanisms and dynamics of their capacity to store C; (2) underline their potential for x climate change mitigation; and (3) provide consideration to improve conservation, management and restoration of coastal wetlands in Indonesia. This research suggests that Indonesian coastal wetlands and their capacities to sequester C are very dynamic and mainly influenced by sea level changes, climatic variabilities and human activities. These factors mainly alter the hydrological conditions and vegetation composition of the coastal wetlands, although the impacts can be sitespecific. Coastal wetlands in Indonesia also have high potential for global climate change mitigation for they have considerable capacities to accumulate C compared to similar ecosystems globally. Additionally, Indonesian coastal wetlands have shown resilience to past disturbances, both natural and anthropogenic. Based on the outcomes, some considerations to improve coastal wetlands conservation, management and restoration are provided. This includes (1) setting up priorities or classifying the importance of species, ecosystems, areas, or actions, in order to help solving the most critical problems, optimizing the efforts and allocating the resource; (2) incorporating socioeconomic needs in conservation and sustainable use; (3) selecting effective and efficient restoration approach; and (4) evaluating policy design and implementation. xi Zusamen...

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Tropical Peatland Forestry: Toward Forest Restoration and Sustainable Use of Wood Resources in Degraded Peatland

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Utilization of Peatlands Based on Local Wisdom and Community Welfare in Riau Province, Indonesia

Utilization of Peatlands Based on Local Wisdom and Community Welfare in Riau Province, Indonesia

Resilience of a peatland in Central Sumatra, Indonesia to past anthropogenic disturbance: Improving conservation and restoration designs using palaeoecology

Indonesian coastal wetlands

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