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Bioculture is the combination of biological and cultural factors that affect human behavior. [1] It is an area of study bounded by the medical sciences , social sciences , landscape ecology , cultural anthropology , biotechnology , disability studies, the humanities , and the economic and global environment.
Indonesia straddles two of the Earth's biogeographical realms, large-scale divisions of the Earth's surface based on the historic and evolutionary distribution patterns of plants and animals. Realms are subdivided into bioregions (and marine realms into provinces), which are in turn made up of multiple ecoregions.
Indonesia's tropical forests and peatlands are of national and global ecological, climatic and socioeconomic importance. [7] Researchers have recognised the importance of Indonesian conservation in climate change mitigation , given it possesses the largest coverage of mangrove forests of any country, which act as a carbon sink .
Indonesia's geographic location is considered as ideal for coffee plantations. It is located near the equator and with numerous mountainous regions across the islands which creates suitable micro-climates for the growth and production of coffee. [58] Indonesia produced an estimated 540,000 metric tons of coffee in 2014. [58]
As of 2019, there are sixteen biosphere reserves in Indonesia that are part of World Network of Biosphere Reserves, which consists of 686 reserves globally. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Biosphere reserves
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The Indonesian Wikipedia (Indonesian: Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, WBI for short) is the Indonesian language edition of Wikipedia. It is the fifth-fastest-growing Asian-language Wikipedia after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
Blessed with a tropical climate and roughly 17,000 islands, Indonesia is the nation with the second highest biodiversity in the world. The flora of Indonesia reflects an intermingling of Asian, Australian and unique, Indonesian lineages. This is due to the geography of Indonesia, located between the aforementioned continents.