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Agusan Marsh is one of the most ecologically significant wetlands in the Philippines. Found in the heart of Mindanao's Agusan Basin, this vast expanse of marsh covers an area roughly the size of Metro Manila. It contains nearly 15% of the nation's fresh water resources in the form of swamp forests.
Peat swamp forests are typically surrounded by lowland rain forests on better-drained soils, and by brackish or salt-water mangrove forests near the coast. They are a kind of peatland , which store and accumulate vast amounts of carbon as soil organic matter —much more than forests on mineral soil (i.e. non-peatland) contain.
The native peat swamp forests contain a number of valuable timber-producing trees plus a range of other products of value to local communities, such as bark, resins and latex. Land-use changes and fire, mainly associated with plantation development and logging ( deforestation and drainage), are reducing this carbon store and contributing to ...
The peat swamp forests of Kalimantan were being slowly cleared for small scale farming and plantations before 1997, but most of the original cover remained. In 1996 the Indonesian government initiated the Mega Rice Project (MRP), which aimed to convert one million hectares of peat swamp forest to rice paddies. Between 1996 and 1998, more than ...
Sumatran peat swamp forests: Indonesia: Sundaland heath forests: Indonesia: Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests: Bangladesh, India: Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests: Taiwan: Tenasserim–South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests: Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand: Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests: Cambodia, Vietnam: Tonle Sap–Mekong peat ...
Satellite image of burning tropical peat swamp, Borneo. In 1997 alone, 73000 ha of swamp was burned in Borneo, releasing the same amount of carbon as 13-40% of the mean annual global carbon emissions of fossil fuels. The majority of this carbon was released from peat rather than overlying tropical rainforest.
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Rain, rivers, and groundwater are all sources of water for freshwater swamp forests, whereas rain is the only source of water for peat swamp forests. [6] The hue of the water in the freshwater swamp forest is typically an indication of the quantities of plant materials present in the water and soil. [ 7 ]