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Peat swamp forest, the Glossary

Peat swamp forests are tropical moist forests where waterlogged soil prevents dead leaves and wood from fully decomposing.^[1]

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Antara (news agency)

Antara is an Indonesian news agency organized as a statutory corporation.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Borneo Orangutan Survival

The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation is an Indonesian non-profit non-governmental organization founded by Dr. Peat swamp forest and Borneo Orangutan Survival are Forestry in Indonesia.

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The Borneo peat swamp forests ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, are on the island of Borneo, which is divided between Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia. Peat swamp forest and Borneo peat swamp forests are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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Brackish water

Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Carbon sequestration

Carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon in a carbon pool.

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Carbon sink

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial carbon sequestration process that "removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere".

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Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Climate finance

Climate finance is an umbrella term for financial resources such as loans, grants, or domestic budget allocations for climate change mitigation, adaptation or resiliency.

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Debt-for-nature swap

Debt-for-nature swaps are financial transactions in which a portion of a developing nation's foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for local investments in environmental conservation measures.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Eastern Congolian swamp forests

The Eastern Congolian swamp forests (French: Forêts marécageuses de l'est du Congo) are a fairly intact but underresearched ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome. Peat swamp forest and Eastern Congolian swamp forests are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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Ecological succession

Ecological succession is the process of change in the species that make up an ecological community over time.

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El Niño–Southern Oscillation

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global climate phenomenon that emerges from variations in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean.

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.

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Eutrophication

Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Heinrich event

A Heinrich event is a natural phenomenon in which large groups of icebergs break off from the Laurentide ice sheet and traverse the Hudson Strait into the North Atlantic.

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Histosol

In both the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) and the USDA soil taxonomy, a Histosol is a soil consisting primarily of organic materials.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Hydrosere

A hydrosere is a plant succession which occurs in an area of fresh water such as in oxbow lakes and kettle lakes.

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Illegal logging

Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase, or sale of timber in violation of laws.

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Indomalayan realm

The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Java

Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Kalimantan

Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.

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Karimata Strait

The Karimata Strait (alternatively, Carimata or Caramata; Selat Karimata) is a wide strait that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea, separating the Indonesian islands of Belitung to the west and Borneo (Kalimantan) to the east.

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Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mega Rice Project

The Mega Rice Project was initiated in 1996 in the southern sections of Kalimantan, the Indonesian section of Borneo. Peat swamp forest and Mega Rice Project are Forestry in Indonesia and southeast Asian haze.

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Ombrotrophic

Ombrotrophic ("cloud-fed"), from Ancient Greek ὄμβρος (ómvros) meaning "rain" and τροφή (trofí) meaning "food"), refers to soils or vegetation which receive all of their water and nutrients from precipitation, rather than from streams or springs.

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Orangutan

Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Oxbow lake

An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms.

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Palm oil production in Indonesia

Palm oil production is important to the economy of Indonesia as the country is the world's biggest producer and consumer of the commodity, providing about half of the world's supply. Peat swamp forest and Palm oil production in Indonesia are Agriculture in Indonesia.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.

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Peatland

A peatland is a type of wetland whose soils consist of organic matter from decaying plants, forming layers of peat.

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Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests

The Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests is an ecoregion on Malay Peninsula, which includes portions of Malaysia. Peat swamp forest and Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Ratargul Swamp Forest

Ratargul Swamp Forest (রাতারগুল জলাবন) is a freshwater swamp forest located in Gowain River, Fatehpur Union, Gowainghat, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Peat swamp forest and Ratargul Swamp Forest are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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REDD and REDD+

REDD+ (or REDD-plus) is a framework to encourage developing countries to reduce emissions and enhance removals of greenhouse gases through a variety of forest management options, and to provide technical and financial support for these efforts.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Sabangau National Park

Sabangau National Park (sometimes spelled Sebangau) is a national park in Central Kalimantan, a province of Indonesia in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo established in 2004.

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Sclerophyll

Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Sea level rise

Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.

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Soil organic matter

Soil organic matter (SOM) is the organic matter component of soil, consisting of plant and animal detritus at various stages of decomposition, cells and tissues of soil microbes, and substances that soil microbes synthesize.

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South Kalimantan

South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan) is a province of Indonesia.

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Sphagnum

Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat).

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Stenochlaena palustris

Stenochlaena palustris (choại, dilimán or hagnaya) is an edible medicinal fern species.

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Storm drain

A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved streets, car parks, parking lots, footpaths, sidewalks, and roofs.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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Sumatran peat swamp forests

The Sumatran peat swamp forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0160) covers the low-lying peat swamp forests along the northeast coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Peat swamp forest and Sumatran peat swamp forests are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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Sumatran tiger

The Sumatran tiger is a population of Panthera tigris sondaica on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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Sunda Shelf

Geologically, the Sunda Shelf is a south-eastern extension of the continental shelf of Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Sylhet District

Sylhet District (সিলেট জেলা), located in north-east Bangladesh, is one of the four districts in the Sylhet Division, which contains Sylhet, the regional capital.

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Tanjung Puting

Tanjung Puting National Park is a national park in Indonesia located in the southeast part of West Kotawaringin Regency in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan (Central Borneo).

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Tannin

Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests

The Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0165) covers a patchwork of areas permanently inundated with fresh water along the Tonle Sap River and Mekong River floodplains in Cambodia and Vietnam. Peat swamp forest and Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat_swamp_forest

Also known as Peat swamp, Peat swamp forests, Peat-swamp forests, Peatswamp forests.

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Peat swamp forest, the Glossary

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See also

Agriculture in Indonesia

Forestry in Indonesia

Southeast Asian haze

Swamps

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