Article: Tropical peat swamp forests of Southeast Asia: ecology and environmental importance. (Abstracts).(Abstract)

Article: Effect of chemical admixtures on the engineering properties of ...
American Journal of Applied Sciences;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... respectively [2]. For case of tropical peat, or tropical peat lands, the total world coverage ... two thirds of which are in Southeast Asia (Fig. 2). Malaysia has ... country land area covered with tropical peat. While in Indonesia peat ...

Article: Methods of utilizing tropical peat land for housing ...
American Journal of Environmental Sciences;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... hectares respectively. The total area of tropical peat swamp forests or tropical peat lands in the world amounts to about 30 million hectares, two thirds of which are in Southeast Asia. In Malaysia, some 3 million hectares ...

Article: Compressibility behavior of tropical peat ...
American Journal of Applied Sciences;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Two third of the world coverage of tropical peat are in South East Asia. Since the ... on compressibility when installed in tropical peat soil. Apart from that researcher is ... the peculiar engineering behavior of tropical peat with respect to their compressibility ...

Article: Engineering properties and compressibility behavior of ...
American Journal of Applied Sciences;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... study is to examine the peculiar engineering behavior of tropical peat with respect to their compressibility characteristics due ... liquid limit, specific gravity and density of various type of tropical peat were obtained to establish suitable correlation. Understanding ...

Article: EVIDENCE FOR SCATTER-HOARDING IN A TROPICAL PEAT ...
Journal of Tropical Forest Science;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Moreover, records of scatter-hoarding are lacking for tropical peat swamp forests, which cover some 38 Mha globally (Rieley ... a study on seed removal and post-removal seed fate in a tropical peat swamp forest in Borneo, specifically in Sarawak, Malaysia ...

Article: Simple and rapid method of isolating humic acids from ...
American Journal of Applied Sciences;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION About 2.5 million ha of peatland can be found in Malaysia. Pineapples and oil palms are among the major crops grown on peat soils. However, the inherent nature of peat soils has been militating against sustainable cultivation of most crops on them as desired. For instance, mature oil

Encyclopedia entry: Southeast Asia
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Southeast Asia region of Asia (1990 est. pop ... Pacific Ocean on the east. The name "Southeast Asia" came into popular use after World ... designated all or part of the region. Southeast Asia includes the Indochina Peninsula ...