Research on Biodiversity Overview

Indonesia has been known as an islands state with megabiodiversity.  Its role as one would say a “lung” of the world, placed Indonesia in a vital role for the sustainable lifes on earth.   Ecologically shows that biodiversity living in an ecosystem interacts with abiotic elements within to form system of life on earth.

Any form of disturbance to the ecosystem and the ecological system can lead to a greater catastrophic events.  It is ashame that the existency of biodiversity and environmental services has always been threatened by human activities.  These threats are in the form of ecosystem modification, land conversion, forest fire, and the use of pesticide.   All these threats will have tremendous effect on the biodiversity such as habitat loss and fragmentation, habitat isolation and disappearance of species.  In fact many groups of taxon which has important role in the ecosystem will soon be extinct.  Few example of these species are elemphant, birds, insects and several herpetofauna.

Protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services needs to be urgently addressed by developing strategic actions.   This issues has become one our concern in Peka Indonesia Foundation.  As stated in the vision of organization, we develop our research program with aims to conserve nature ecosystem for sustainable lifes on earth.  We do our researches with topics on species taxonomy, interspecies interaction, evaluating ecosystem services, landscape structure and ecosystem biorestoration.   Other issues which has been develop strongly are global warming and climate change.  We try to attach this issues in the context of effects of global warming on ecosystem, biodiversity, and environmental services.

Research On Biodiversity Categories

1. Insect Research

Insects represent a substantial proportion of the total terrestrial biodiversity and play a key role in maintaining and conserving the ecosystem functions. They also provide many critically important services through numerous mechanisms, such as decomposition of leaf litter, pollination, suppression of plant growth, and serving as prey for predators. Their potential as effective ecological indicators has been widely used for monitoring the effects of landscape and land-use changes, habitat destruction, modification and isolation because they are abundant, species rich, and ubiquitously occurring... Read Full Article

2. Tree Frog Research

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