Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2018

Presentation information

[JJ] Evening Poster

A (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences) » A-CG Complex & General

[A-CG40] Material Circulations in Land Ecosystems

Thu. May 24, 2018 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall7, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Tomomichi Kato(Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University), Takashi Hirano(Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University), Hisashi Sato(海洋研究開発機構 地球表層物質循環研究分野, 共同), Ryuichi Hirata(National Institute for Environmental Studies)

[ACG40-P07] Carbon emissions caused by land use change in Borneo island

*Ryuichi Hirata1, Habura Borjigin1, Tomohiro Shiraishi1 (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies)

While tropical peat forest occupies only 0.25% of surface area on globe, it accounts 3% of soil organic carbon on earth (Hergoualc’h and Verchot, 2011). Tropical peat forest, in which forest grows on peat with depth of 1 to -10 m, spreads in Southeast Asia such as Borneo and Sumatra Island. Recently, the area of tropical peat forest is rapidly decreasing because of fire or plantation, and has resulted in large carbon lost. Therefore, carbon management and control for tropical peat forest is very important with the objective of development, conservation and disaster prevention. In order to evaluate the effects of land use change on greenhouse gas fluxes of tropical peat lands.