Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia

Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia

The forests of Kalimantan are under severe pressure from extensive land use activities dominated by logging, palm oil plantations, and peatland fires. To implement the forest moratorium for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia’s government requires information on the carbon stored in fores...

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Main Authors: António Ferraz, Sassan Saatchi, Liang Xu, Stephen Hagen, Jerome Chave, Yifan Yu, Victoria Meyer, Mariano Garcia, Carlos Silva, Orbita Roswintiart, Ari Samboko, Plinio Sist, Sarah Walker, Timothy R H Pearson, Arief Wijaya, Franklin B Sullivan, Ervan Rutishauser, Dirk Hoekman, Sangram Ganguly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
carbon
aboveground biomass mapping
forest degradation
peat swamp forests
airborne lidar
Kalimantan
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad782

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