Publications by authors named "Kiswara W"
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- Seagrasses serve as vital carbon sinks in Southeast Asia, significantly contributing to climate change mitigation but lacking comprehensive national inventories and nature-based solutions.
- The study estimates national coastal blue carbon stocks in seagrass ecosystems across the region, revealing an average carbon storage of 121.95 Mg ha and a total carbon stock of 429.11 Tg, predominantly found in the Philippines.
- Despite their potential to offset CO emissions and economic value, current policies overlook blue carbon ecosystems in climate mitigation efforts, highlighting a need for greater recognition and integration of seagrass meadows in national and international frameworks.
Seagrass longevity up to 47 years in well-restored, well-sited seagrass restorations are demonstrated from 253 trials at 83 regional sites in tropical and subtropical portions of three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Oceans). These trials include over 3.04 million planted units into 306.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClimate Change solutions include CO extraction from atmosphere and water with burial by living habitats in sediment/soil. Nowhere on the planet are blue carbon plants which carry out massive carbon extraction and permanent burial more intensely concentrated than in SE Asia. For the first time we make a national and total inventory of data to date for "blue carbon" buried from mangroves and seagrass and delineate the constraints.
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- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) help protect endangered species and restore ecosystems, but they can unintentionally harm their habitats when populations of protected species become too high.
- In a study of a 10-year-old MPA, green turtles significantly damaged seagrass by developing a new foraging technique that disrupts the ecosystem, leading to erosion and reduced seagrass growth.
- The research suggests that if turtle populations aren't controlled, the seagrass habitat could collapse, highlighting the need for better management strategies to balance species conservation and habitat health.
In remote, tropical areas human influences increase, potentially threatening pristine seagrass systems. We aim (i) to provide a bench-mark for a near-pristine seagrass system in an archipelago in East Kalimantan, by quantifying a large spectrum of abiotic and biotic properties in seagrass meadows and (ii) to identify early warning indicators for river sediment and nutrient loading, by comparing the seagrass meadow properties over a gradient with varying river influence. Abiotic properties of water column, pore water and sediment were less suitable indicators for increased sediment and nutrient loading than seagrass properties.
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