Peat Resource Person Details | |
Category: | Individual |
Salutation: | Dr |
Name: | Peter Van Der Meer |
Nationality: | Netherlands |
Age: | 62 |
Title/Designation: | Senior Scientist |
Organization/Company Name: | Alterra Wageningen University & Research |
Organization/Company Address: |
P.O.Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands |
Current Working Location: | Netherlands |
Email: | peter.vandermeer@wur.nl |
Telephone: |
Office: +31 317 485859 Mobile: +31 6 5131 2665 |
Languages: |
English Dutch French German |
Qualifications: |
1995 Ph.D. (Agriculture & Environmental Sciences) 1988 M.Sc. (Tropical Forestry) |
Focal Area of Interest: |
Research |
Years of Peat Related Working Experience: | 23 |
Field of Peat Related Expertise/Specializations: Please tick where applicable |
Biodiversity Assessment Ecology Carbon Assessment Restoration/Rehabilitation |
Country(ies) that you have Worked in the SEA Region: |
Indonesia Malaysia |
Peat Related Professional Experience/History: | Long term experience as researcer and project leader in area of sustainable management of peat swamp forests; forest ecology; ecology and management of Ramin (Gonystylys bancanus), carbon stocks, REDD+ & MRV, ecosystem goods and services, peat rehabilitation |
Publication(s): (If any) |
Vaessen, T.; Verwer, C.; Demies, M.; Kaliang, H.; Meer, P.J. van der 2011. Comparison of termite assemblages along a landuse gradient on peat areas in Sarawak, Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 23 (2). - p. 196 - 203. Verwer, C.C.; Meer, P.J. van der, 2010. Carbon pools in tropical peat forest : towards a reference value for forest biomass carbon in relatively undisturbed peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia. Wageningen, Alterra (Alterra-rapport 2108). Verwer, C., P.J. van der Meer, and G.J. Nabuurs. 2008. Review of carbon flux estimates and other greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm cultivation on Tropical peatlands - Identifying the gaps in Knowledge. Alterra-rapport 1731, ISSN 15667197. Van der Meer, P.J. Kunne, P.L.B., Brunsting, A.M.H., Dibor, L.A., Jansen, P.A. 2008. Evidence for Scatter-hoarding in a Tropical Peat Swamp Forest in Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 20(4): 147–155. Van der Meer, P.J., Chai, F.Y.C., Hillegers, P.J.M. and K.G. Pearce. 2005. Sustainable Management of Peat Swamp Forests of Sarawak with special reference to Ramin. Technical Report. Alterra, Wageningen UR, Sarawak Forest Department, Sarawak Forestry Corporation. Kuching. March 2005. 739 pp. |
Website(s): |
http://www.alterra.wur.nl/UK/research/Specialisation+Ecosystem+Studies/Forest+Ecosystems/ http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=102381&v=512266 |
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