A researcher walks through the brown-coloured water of swampy degraded peatlands during the wet season. Degraded peatlands are characterized by...

A researcher walks through the brown-coloured water of swampy degraded peatlands during the wet season. Degraded peatlands are characterized by fast-growing shrub vegetation cover during the wet season, and are susceptible to wildfire during the dry season as well as extreme climate variability such as El Nino.

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Keywords:

Carbon, Degraded Forests, Forests, Mitigation, Researcher, Tropical Forests, Wetlands, Kabupaten Katingan, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, ID, Monitoring, Swamp, Peatlands.