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Does agricultural use of tropical peat soil really accelerate peat decomposition?

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K14903
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Environmental agriculture(including landscape science)
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

WATANABE Akira  名古屋大学, 生命農学研究科, 教授 (50231098)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords環境調和型農林水業 / 土壌圏現象 / 熱帯農業 / 泥炭 / 環境調和型農林水産 / 有機物分解 / 熱帯泥炭
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Tropical peatland is one of the remaining land resources, and an acceleration of the mineralization of vast amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) stored as peat under agricultural use accompanying drainage has been concerned. On the other hand, the lack of significant change in the rate of SOC mineralization due to landuse change suggested the presence of considerable amount of SOC stabilized. To confirm the existence of such SOC, forest and cultivated peat soils collected in Sarawak, Malaysia, were analyzed. Recalcitrant humic substances, based on the degree of darkening, were not detected in the fractionation humic acids. Black carbon content estimated by nitric acid oxidation was less than 1% of total SOC. 13C NMR spectra determined before and after irradiation did not differ, indicating similar sensitivity to photo-degradation among SOC components. Thus, the presence of persistent SOC in tropical peat soil was not proven in this study.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2017 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Tropical Peat Research Laboratory(マレーシア)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Evaluation on the decomposability of tropical forest peat soils after conversion to an oil palm plantation2017

    • Author(s)
      Sangok FE, Maie N, Melling L, Watanabe A.
    • Journal Title

      Science of Total Environment

      Volume: 587-588 Pages: 381-388

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.165

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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