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Volume 8 Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography
ISSN: 2157-7625 Ecology 2018
March 19-20, 2018
March 19-20, 2018 | Berlin, Germany
World Conference on Ecology
Deforestation trends and forest transitions in tropical landscapes
Kiswanto1 and Satoshi Tsuyuki2
1Mulawarman University, Indonesia
2The University of Tokyo, Japan
Tropical rainforests are some of the wealthiest home to probably 50 percent of the world’s terrestrial species and also helps to
maintain the climate by regulating atmospheric gases and stabilizing rainfall, protecting against desertification and providing
numerous other ecological functions. Unfortunately, prospects for tropical forests are becoming increasingly bleak owing to
unabated deforestation and forest alteration that stem from human activities such as logging, hunting, agricultural expansion and
human settlement. Many drivers of land cover change left traceable footprints in their wake, which can be observed from satellite
imagery. An essential concept for trends in deforestation is the forest transitions, a well-established pattern of how deforestation
in region increases, then decreases, and finally to reforestation over the course of time. For showing the yearly land cover and
land cover changes over time, as a case study in East Kalimantan Province (Indonesia), we produced yearly land cover maps from
2000 to 2016 using Landsat imageries interpreted visually and then analyzed land cover changes during 17 years, including a
total of forest cover over time. In this study, we analyzed annual deforestation trends and estimated the forest transitions during
17 years. Our results indicated forest loss especially in the natural forest, was caused by decreasing of forest quality, i.e. changes
from primary to secondary forest, from secondary forest to shrubland, etc. Forest gain was only seen in plantation forest that was
changed from primary and secondary dryland forest.
Recent Publications
1. BP-REDD+ (Indonesian REDD+Agency). 2015. National Forest Reference Emission
Level for Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Context of the Activities
Reffered to in Decition 1/Cp.16, Paragraph 70 (REDD+) Under the UNFCCC : A
Reference for Decision Makers. Published by BP-REDD+ Indonesia.
2. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations). 2010. Global Forest
Resources Assessment 2010. FAO Forestry Paper 163. Rome.
3. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). 2015. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: How
are the world’s forests changing?. Rome.
4. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). 2003. Good Practice Guidance for LandUse, Land-Use Change and
Forestry. IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme. Published by the Institute for Global Environmental
Strategies (IGES) for the IPCC. Japan.
5. ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organization). 2002. ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management and
Rehabilitation of Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests. ITTO Policy Development Series No. 13 in collaboration
with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF) International.
6. MoF (Ministry of Forestry), Republic of Indonesia. 2004. Minister of Forestry Regulation No. P.14/Menhut-II/2004 on
The Procedures for Afforestation and Reforestation in the Framework of Clean Development Mechanism. Jakarta.
7. MoF (Ministry of Forestry), Republic of Indonesia. 2009. Minister of Forestry Regulation No. P.30/Menhut-II/2009 on
The Procedures for Reduction Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Jakarta.
Biography
Kiswanto is a Lecturer in Forestry Faculty of Mulawarman University, Indonesia. Since 2015, he is taking PhD course at the Graduate School of Agricultural and
Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan under supervision of Associate Professor Satoshi Tsuyuki, PhD. His research topic is the silvicultural strategies of
landscape restoration for reducing GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. During this PhD research
work, he produced yearly land cover maps from 2000-2016 using Landsat interpreted visually and analyzed land cover changes over time, to monitor deforestation
trends and forest transitions, estimate GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and formulate the silvicultural strategies of landscape restoration.
Kiswanto et al., J Ecosyst Ecography 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7625-C1-032