In an effort to mitigate climate change, landscape management planning aims to balance socioeconomic needs with environmental sustainability. South Sumatra is one of the provinces in Indonesia committed to the restoration and creation of a green economy based on sustainable use of natural resources. Land-based development should be planned to achieve a balance between these aspects. Therefore, an assessment of current conditions and potential existing land use resources is needed to provide basic data for future development. Amount of 55 plots in 8 land use systems in Banyuasin, Musi Banyuasin and Musi Rawas were set up for the analysis of tree diversity and above-ground carbon stock estimation. Based on tree diversity composition, logged-over forest is considered as a sustainable ecosystem due to its high tree species richness, high diversity index and medium similarity among growth stages. The shrub on swampy area are land cover type that has potential in supporting biodiversity due to not been managed intensively. Compared with terrestrial ecosystem, mangrove has lower species richness, even though the typical characteristics of those ecosystem type is also good habitat for biodiversity, especially supports aquatic biodiversity and has other physical functions such as preventing coastal abrasion. In terms of carbon stock, natural land cover such as undisturbed forest, logged-over forest and mangrove forest has high to medium amount of carbon stock. Man-made land use systems such as rubber agroforest also potential to be developed as part of mitigation action as it contains relatively high carbon stock.
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https://doi.org/10.5716/WP17358.PDFAltmetric score:
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2017
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English
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Indonesia
