Apurahat ja residenssipaikat Tiede Designing and monitoring of restoration success on degraded peatlands in Indonesia Päähakija MPhil I Ismail Myöntösumma 101200 € Tukimuoto Yleinen rahoitushaku Alat Biologinen ja ekologinen ympäristötiedeFysikaalinen ja kemiallinen ympäristötiedeYmpäristötekniikka Myöntövuosi 2018 Jos omistat hankkeen, voit kirjautua sisään ja lisätä hankkeen tietoja. Kirjaudu sisään Jaa: Takaisin apurahalistaukseen Peatland restoration is a top national priority of Indonesian government and supported by Finland trough commitment and official agreement in 2017 between the nations ministries of Agriculture and Forestry. Peatland restoration is necessary to rehabilitate and conserve vast extend of degraded tropical peatland in Indonesia which now suffer to fire hazard and carbon emission. A restoration campaign under official national agency program is currently taking place in Padang island, and our group with collaborators (University of Oulu, Universitas Gadjah Mada Indonesia, and NIBIO Norway) act as partners to support scientific aspects of the restoration campaign. We propose a multidisciplinary research to develop and establish an evaluation method for peatland restoration and vegetation recovery, as well as to provide scientific evidence and recommendations on restoration for future land and water management on peatlands in Indonesia. We will establish a holistic and comprehensive methodology and tool to evaluate the current pilot project of peat restoration in Indonesia by analyzing hydrology variables pre and post-restoration, and the vegetation response to restoration. Loppuraportin tiivistelmä Monitoring ecohydrological process and forest dynamics in a tropical peatland. Poor management and draining of tropical peatlands are causing problems such as enormous carbon emission, fire, land degradation, and loss of biodiversity. However, tropical peatlands are complex ecosystem, yet are understudied, in comparison to northern peatlands. Hence, we carried on a multi-disciplinary study on tropical peatlands, aims to link the hydrological process with plant response and later to forest change. Understanding these ecohydrological processes will contribute to restoration of degraded tropical peatlands, improvement of land and water management, and ecosystem protection. Indonesia, the site of our study, is the home of over 20 million hectares tropical peatlands but is currently struggling to manage such vast peatlands. Up to one-fifth of drained peatlands in Indonesia are cultivated for agriculture/monoculture plantation, while the remaining drained peatlands are wastelands and frequently burnt. Consequently, Indonesia was once of the major global carbon emitter. However, the country commits for reduction of emission and ecosystem protection on peatlands which are in line with the Finland’s interest and policy for environment and global climate change. Data analysis and dissertation work are taking place in Water research unit, University of Oulu, Finland, whose reputable track-record in peatland studies. This is a collaboration research with Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) and Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO). Takaisin apurahalistaukseen