Shifting cultivation in peatlands

摘要: Transboundary haze pollution from smoke land preparation fires has become a perennial problem in Indonesia, especially the last 10 years during dry season. Most of that originates illegal for oil palm and industrial forest plantation as well shifting cultivation, which is usually blamed smoke. In order to understand role fire cultivation areas dominated by peat soils, research was conducted season 2001 on belonging community Pelalawan village, district, Riau province, Indonesia. The showed burning did not affect all equally. No burned fibric site, while hemic site varied depth 6.0 cm 12.6 cm, sapric 15.4 31.9 cm. Further, only phosphorus increased significantly following burning, base saturation increased; however, both compared condition before burning. These data show if continues be used areas, becomes critically endangered.