Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia
Although accurate estimates of biomass loss during peat fires, and recovery over time, are critical in understanding net peat ecosystem carbon balance, empirical data to inform carbon models are scarce. During the 2019 dry season, fires burned through 133,631 ha of degraded peatlands of Central Kali...
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| author | Liubov Volkova Wahyu Catur Adinugroho Haruni Krisnawati Rinaldi Imanuddin Christopher John Weston |
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| description | Although accurate estimates of biomass loss during peat fires, and recovery over time, are critical in understanding net peat ecosystem carbon balance, empirical data to inform carbon models are scarce. During the 2019 dry season, fires burned through 133,631 ha of degraded peatlands of Central Kalimantan. This study reports carbon loss from surface fuels and the top peat layer of 18.5 Mg C ha<sup>−1</sup> (3.5 from surface fuels and 15.0 from root/peat layer), releasing an average of 2.5 Gg (range 1.8–3.1 Gg) carbon in these fires. Peat surface change measurements over one month, as the fires continued to smolder, indicated that about 20 cm of the surface was lost to combustion of peat and fern rhizomes, roots and recently incorporated organic residues that we sampled as the top peat layer. Time series analysis of live green vegetation (NDVI trend), combined with field observations of vegetation recovery two years after the fires, indicated that vegetation recovery equivalent to fire-released carbon is likely to occur around 3 years after fires. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-34e87bcdeb4d444aa718124072d8f6042023-11-23T08:14:13ZengMDPI AGFire2571-62552021-09-01446410.3390/fire4040064Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, IndonesiaLiubov Volkova0Wahyu Catur Adinugroho1Haruni Krisnawati2Rinaldi Imanuddin3Christopher John Weston4School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, VIC 3363, AustraliaForest Research and Development Center, Forestry and Environment Research, Development and Innovation Agency (FORDIA), Bogor 16610, IndonesiaForest Research and Development Center, Forestry and Environment Research, Development and Innovation Agency (FORDIA), Bogor 16610, IndonesiaForest Research and Development Center, Forestry and Environment Research, Development and Innovation Agency (FORDIA), Bogor 16610, IndonesiaSchool of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, VIC 3363, AustraliaAlthough accurate estimates of biomass loss during peat fires, and recovery over time, are critical in understanding net peat ecosystem carbon balance, empirical data to inform carbon models are scarce. During the 2019 dry season, fires burned through 133,631 ha of degraded peatlands of Central Kalimantan. This study reports carbon loss from surface fuels and the top peat layer of 18.5 Mg C ha<sup>−1</sup> (3.5 from surface fuels and 15.0 from root/peat layer), releasing an average of 2.5 Gg (range 1.8–3.1 Gg) carbon in these fires. Peat surface change measurements over one month, as the fires continued to smolder, indicated that about 20 cm of the surface was lost to combustion of peat and fern rhizomes, roots and recently incorporated organic residues that we sampled as the top peat layer. Time series analysis of live green vegetation (NDVI trend), combined with field observations of vegetation recovery two years after the fires, indicated that vegetation recovery equivalent to fire-released carbon is likely to occur around 3 years after fires.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/4/4/64emissionsemission factorshrubfernsNDVIlitter |
| spellingShingle | Liubov Volkova Wahyu Catur Adinugroho Haruni Krisnawati Rinaldi Imanuddin Christopher John Weston Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia Fire emissions emission factor shrub ferns NDVI litter |
| title | Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_full | Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_fullStr | Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_short | Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_sort | loss and recovery of carbon in repeatedly burned degraded peatlands of kalimantan indonesia |
| topic | emissions emission factor shrub ferns NDVI litter |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/4/4/64 |
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