Tropical Peatland Eco-evaluation

About this book

This book focuses on eco-evaluation system monitoring and sensing, carbon-water modelling, mapping, and disaster prediction. It is the third book on tropical peatland issues, following Tropical Peatland Ecosystem and Tropical Peatland Eco-management. Tropical peatland is simultaneously wetland, mangrove, and rainforest, meaning water and forest are two key elements. This book introduces the relationship and interaction among water, oxygen, and nutrients as well as aspects of the forest as the driving force of carbon stock and the carbon cycle. Eco-evaluation system is key to conserving, managing, and restoring tropical peatlands, however, a comprehensive system for eco-evaluation in the tropics is not yet established. This book reviews and proposes eco-evaluation methods in the tropics, focusing mainly on the peatland ecosystem and others, covering social capital such as credit, bonds, national accounting, etc.

Contents

Chapter 1. Innovative Ecoevaluation System for Tropical Peatlands
Chapter 2. Integrated Eco-evaluation Practices of Industrial Forest Plantation in Peatland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Chapter 3. Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) Mapping in Tropical Peatland
Chapter 4. Carbon accounting system in tropical peatlands
Chapter 5. An Innovative Restoration Technology for Tropical Peatlands: AeroHydro Culture (AHC)
Chapter 6. Function of Humic Acid
Chapter 7. Camera traps to survey mammals in peatland
Chapter 8. SESAME System
Chapter 9. Sensing, Monitoring and Data Collection System (sPOTEKA-NET)
Chapter 10. The use of a compact fiber-optic spectrometer to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide in a tropical peatland
Chapter 11. Appraisal of LiDAR measurements for monitoring tropical peatlands
Chapter 12. Topography Monitoring by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs)
Chapter 13. Multifootprint Observation Lidar and Imager (MOLI) Mission for Peatland Observations

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Biography

Mitsuru Osaki, PhD (Japan), was a Professor at the Research Faculty of Agriculture and the Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, from 2006 to 2017. He is a Professor Emeritus at Hokkaido University and president of the Japan Peatland Society. and the President of NPO FutureForest Institute, Japan. He trained as a plant physiologist and soil scientist and obtained his doctorate degree from the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, in 1981.

Nobuyuki Tsuji (Japan): After graduating from the Department of Physics, at Saga University, Japan, he worked at Saga University, Saga Medical School, Japan, Sasebo College of Technology, Japan, National Institute of Environment Studies, Japan, and the Center for Sustainability Science, and Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. In 2016, he moved to the Institute of Tropical Biology and Conservation, and Small Island Research Centre (2020-2022), University Malaysia Sabah, Sabah, Malaysia. He obtained his PhD from Kyusyu University, Japan, in 1990. He is a member of the Japan Peatland Society.

Tsuyoshi Kato (Japan) is a deputy divisional manager of the Environment and Resource Division, at Sumitomo Forestry Co, Ltd, Japan. He studied forest ecology at Kyoto University, conducting five years of field research to understand the recovery process after commercial logging of a tropical forest in the Jambi district of Sumatra, Indonesia. From 2010 to 2022 he managed two forest plantations on peatlands and conducted field studies in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Albertus Sulaiman (Indonesia) received a BS in Meteorology and a PhD in Theoretical Physics, from the Bandung Institute of Technology. His research interest is in environmental monitoring and modelling in tropical peatlands, as well as nonlinear atmospheric and ocean phenomena, especially in the equatorial region. He is currently Head of the Research Center for Climate and Atmosphere, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN, Indonesia).