8000 years of vegetation dynamics and environmental changes of a unique inland peat ecosystem of the Jambi Province in Central Sumatra, Indonesia

Response of testate amoebae to a late Holocene ecosystem shift in an Amazonian peatland

“…However, this method needs to be tested further in other tropical peatlands in Amazonia and beyond (e.g. Biagioni et al, 2015). In this study we test the response of TA to an ecosystem shift reconstructed using pollen and geochemical analyses at San Jorge, an ombrotrophic domed peatland bordering the Amazon River in Peruvian Amazonia (Fig.…”

Smoke radiocarbon measurements from Indonesian fires provide evidence for burning of millennia-aged peat

“…Using isotope definitions from Stuiver and Polach (36), this means the Δ 14 C should be above the contemporary level observed for atmospheric CO 2 (25 ± 3‰ in 2015). In contrast, carbonaceous aerosol from older peat should have a negative Δ 14 C, reflecting the longer-term cumulative effects of radioactive decay in organic carbon layers deposited over a period of centuries or millennia (35, 37–43).…”

Ecological prerequisites for successful reforestation of degraded tropical peatlands

“…The main peat forming ecosystem in SE Asia is the peat swamp forest (TPSF), which is a nutrient poor lowland freshwater ecosystem with broadleaf rainforest vegetation growing on top of peat that can be several meters deep. The TPSFs in the coastal plains of SE Asian archipelago, especially in Borneo, Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, have substantial soil carbon deposits developed from the vegetation remains for thousands of years (Anshari et al 2004;Dommain et al 2011;Biagioni et al 2015). The TPSFs are dome shaped, ombrotrophic, i.e.…”