Environmental drivers of vegetation patterns in tropical peat swamp forests

80 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 marbled cat, and bearded pig, one bird Wallace’s hawk eagle and one reptile spiny hill turtle. A total eight mammal, 26 bird and one reptile species found in Bawan Forest are legally protected in Indonesia. Eight mammal species, one bird and one reptile are protected under CITES, which prohibitsrestricts international trade. Three primates, one bird, three reptile and potentially three amphibian species are endemic to Borneo i.e. found nowhere else on Earth.

48.1 Ms. Susan Mary Cheyne

Warga Negara : Inggris Jabatan : Postdoctoral Researcher Institusi : Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford No. SIP : 217SIPFRPSMVI2013

48.2 Ms. Wiwit Juwita Sastramidjaja

Warga Negara : Belanda Jabatan : Research Assistant Institusi : Outrop No. SIP : 51EXTSIPFRPSMVI2013

49. Environmental drivers of vegetation patterns in tropical peat swamp forests

Tujuan Penelitian : Meneliti perubahan struktur dan komposisi hutan rawa gambut di gradien lingkungan Bidang Penelitian : Biologi Daerah Penelitian : Kalteng Area Konservasi Mawas, Kapuas, Mantengai, Release, Bagantung, Tuanan Lama Penelitian : 12 dua belas bulan mulai 14 Maret 2013 81 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 Mitra Kerja : Pusat Pengendalian Kebakaran dan Rehabilitasi Hutan, Universitas Palangkaraya Dr. Ir. Aswin Usup, M.Sc. Abstrak Tropical peatlands play an important role in the global carbon pool as they form one of the terrestrial ecosystems with the highest carbon density. Peat accumulation leads to the formation of peat domes that store ombrotrophic water and are characterised by increasing nutrient availability and waterlogging from the top to the lower riverine areas of the domes. Peat domes are naturally covered with peat swamp forests PSF that show compositional and structural transitions along the nutrient and waterlogging gradients. Little is known about the functional ecology of peat swamp forests along undisturbed peat domes and under diferent disturbance regimes of drainage and ire. This study proposes to analyse temporal and spatial changes of PSF composition and structure in pristine and degraded PSF by combining a ield and remote sensing approach. LIDAR LIght Detection And Ranging is a state-of-the-art tool to monitor 3D forest structure and spatial organisation in inaccessible forests at a broad scale, but this technique needs to be ground-truthed. The project will be carried out in the BOS Borneo Orangutan Survival Mawas Conservation area in collaboration with KFCP Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership and results will improve our knowledge on PSF ecology and recovery dynamics and will be valuable to local conservation and restoration initiatives.

49.1 Ms. Beatrice Maite Myrtille Wedeux