Rainforest Ecosystems of East Kalimantan
El Niño, Drought, Fire and Human Impacts
- Editors
- (view affiliations)
Part of the Ecological Studies book series (ECOLSTUD, volume 140)
Table of contents
About this book
Introduction
Since the late 1960s the Indonesian state of East Kalimantan has witnessed a marked increase in the impact of human activities chiefly commercial logging and agricultural exploitation. Located on the island of Borneo, East Kalimantan also was subjected to prolonged droughts and extensive wildfires in 1982-83 and 1997-98 that were linked to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. The changes in the rainforest ecosystem in East Kalimantan during this 15-year cycle of severe ENSO events are the subject of this book. With an eye toward development of rehabilitation techniques for sustainable forest management, the authors examine possible interactive effects of drought, fire, and human impacts on the flora and fauna of the area.
Keywords
Flora Rain Rainforest Silviculture Southern Oscillation ecosystem environment fauna forest forest management forestry logging temperature tree vegetation
Editors and affiliations
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67911-0
- Copyright Information Springer Japan 2000
- Publisher Name Springer, Tokyo
- eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
- Print ISBN 978-4-431-67985-1
- Online ISBN 978-4-431-67911-0
- Series Print ISSN 0070-8356
- Buy this book on publisher's site