In the Tropical Forests of Sumatra: Notes from Climate Change ‘Ground Zero‘

Andre Vltchek; Geoffrey Gunn

doi:10.1017/S1557466010009307

In the Tropical Forests of Sumatra: Notes from Climate Change ‘Ground Zero‘

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

Andre Vltchek and

Geoffrey Gunn

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It is probably a cliché to observe that tropical rain forests host the greatest known concentrations of bio-diversity on the planet. Together, the three great global equatorial biozones are central Africa, the Amazon basin, and the Indonesian archipelago, including southern Sumatra Island, and the even more remote tin-rich offshore island of Bangka, as profiled here by Andre Vltchek. Recent understandings also point to these dramatically shrinking forest reserves as carbon soaks and/or as the planet's treasured green lungs.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 7 , February 2010 , e2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1557466010009307 [Opens in a new window]
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