Sensing/Monitoring Networks on Carbon Balance and Biodiversity in Tropical Peatland

Abstract

The Earth's remaining tropical forests are found mainly in the peatlands and lowland of the Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia, especially in regions of Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Papua New Guinea, where rich biodiversity can still be found and large amounts of carbon are stored in peat soils UNDP, UNEP, WB, and WRI (2000).