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Palangkaraya drained forest
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    • The contents of this page are based on Principal Investigator's report dated 21 May 2008
    Site NamePalangkaraya drained forest
    AsiaFlux Site CodePDF
    LocationKalangpangan, Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Position2º 20' 42" S, 114º 2' 11" E
    Elevation 30 m above sea level
    Slope 0 deg
    Terrain Type Flat
    Area Greater than 50 km2
    Fetch About 400, 500, 1500 m, and longer than 5000 m, respectively, for the north, east, west and south directions
    Climate Tropics (Dry season: May or June through October or November)
    Mean annual air temperature 26.3 degC (2002-2005)
    Mean annual precipitation 2231 mm (2002-2005)
    Vegetation Type Tropical peat swamp forest (evergreen) drained in the 1990’s
    Dominant Species (Overstory) Combretocarpus rotundatus, Cratoxylum arborescens, Buchanania sessifolia and Tetramerista glabra
    Dominant Species (Understory) No information
    Canopy height About 26m
    Age No information
    LAI Around 5 m2 m-2 in plant area index (PAI) at 1.3 m height measured in June 2006 using a plant canopy analyzer (LAI2000, Licor)
    Soil type Peat (drained by canal built in the late 1990s; Hirano et al., Carbon dioxide balance of a tropical peat swamp forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Change Biology, 13, 412-425, 2007)

    Observation Period

    Measurement PeriodSince November 2001
    Measurement FrequencyContinuously

    Data Availability

    2002 - 2005 on AsiaFlux Database

    Contact Address

    Takashi Hirano (hiranoenv.agr.hokudai.ac.jp)

    Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University
    Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
    TEL +81-11-706-3689 FAX +81-11-727-3689