FUNGI AND MACROFAUNA COMMUNITY IN POST-FIRE PEATLAND IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN

FUNGI AND MACROFAUNA COMMUNITY IN POST-FIRE PEATLAND IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN. Peat soil with its unique physical and chemical character is host to various microbe and fauna. In the peat, the existence of microbe and macrofauna influenced by several environmental parameters. This paper investigates the fungi and macrofauna community in the post fire degraded peat swamp soil with emphasize on two points: the abundance of soil fungi and soil macrofauna and to describe the environmental parameters (e.g. understory and chemical properties) on the existence of fungi and macrofauna community. Soil dilution and pitfall trap methods were used to collect soil fungi and macrofauna in four different plots based on the revegetation time which are: no revegetation (A), 12 months after revegetation (revegetated in December 2016) (B), 21 months after revegetation (revegetated in April 2016) (C), and 24 months after revegetation (revegetated in December 2015) (D). Result showed that abundance of soil fungi obtained during this study is 4×105 to 11×105 cfu/ml. While the macrofauna abundance is 353–1038 ind/m2. Soil fungi and macrofauna community in peatland affected by understory cover which was related with revegetation activity. There is a trend of increasing the abundance of soil fungi and macrofauna on the post-fire peatland along with the increase of the percentage of understory cover.