Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia
The forests of Kalimantan are under severe pressure from extensive land use activities dominated by logging, palm oil plantations, and peatland fires. To implement the forest moratorium for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia’s government requires information on the carbon stored in fores...
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| author | António Ferraz Sassan Saatchi Liang Xu Stephen Hagen Jerome Chave Yifan Yu Victoria Meyer Mariano Garcia Carlos Silva Orbita Roswintiart Ari Samboko Plinio Sist Sarah Walker Timothy R H Pearson Arief Wijaya Franklin B Sullivan Ervan Rutishauser Dirk Hoekman Sangram Ganguly |
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| description | The forests of Kalimantan are under severe pressure from extensive land use activities dominated by logging, palm oil plantations, and peatland fires. To implement the forest moratorium for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia’s government requires information on the carbon stored in forests, including intact, degraded, secondary, and peat swamp forests. We developed a hybrid approach of producing a wall-to-wall map of the aboveground biomass (AGB) of intact and degraded forests of Kalimantan at 1 ha grid cells by combining field inventory plots, airborne lidar samples, and satellite radar and optical imagery. More than 110 000 ha of lidar data were acquired to systematically capture variations of forest structure and more than 104 field plots to develop lidar-biomass models. The lidar measurements were converted into biomass using models developed for 66 439 ha of drylands and 44 250 ha of wetland forests. By combining the AGB map with the national land cover map, we found that 22.3 Mha (10 ^6 ha) of forest remain on drylands ranging in biomass from 357.2 ± 12.3 Mgha ^−1 in relatively intact forests to 134.2 ± 6.1 Mgha ^−1 in severely degraded forests. The remaining peat swamp forests are heterogeneous in coverage and degradation level, extending over 3.62 Mha and having an average AGB of 211.8 ± 12.7 Mgha ^−1 . Emission factors calculated from aboveground biomass only suggest that the carbon storage potential of more than 15 Mha of degraded and secondary dryland forests will be about 1.1 PgC. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c3022935fb9747d7b250235f9ff852bd2023-08-09T14:35:44ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262018-01-0113909500110.1088/1748-9326/aad782Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, IndonesiaAntónio Ferraz0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5328-5471Sassan Saatchi1Liang Xu2Stephen Hagen3Jerome Chave4Yifan Yu5Victoria Meyer6Mariano Garcia7Carlos Silva8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7844-3560Orbita Roswintiart9Ari Samboko10Plinio Sist11Sarah Walker12Timothy R H Pearson13https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3771-8668Arief Wijaya14Franklin B Sullivan15Ervan Rutishauser16Dirk Hoekman17Sangram Ganguly18Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, United States of America; Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of AmericaJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, United States of America; Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of AmericaInstitute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of AmericaApplied GeoSolutions, Newmarket, NH, United States of AmericaLaboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique UMR 5174, CNRS Université Paul Sabatier , Toulouse, FranceJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, United States of AmericaJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, United States of AmericaDepartment of Geology, Geography and Environment, University of Alcalá , E-28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, SpainJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA, United States of America; Department of Natural Resources and Society, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho , (UI), Moscow, ID, United States of AmericaIndonesia National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) Jl. Lapan No. 70, Pekayon Pasar, IndonesiaIndonesia National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) Jl. Lapan No. 70, Pekayon Pasar, IndonesiaCirad, UPR Forests and Societies, Univ. Montpellier , Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, FranceEcosystem Services Unit, Winrock International, Arlington, United States of AmericaEcosystem Services Unit, Winrock International, Arlington, United States of AmericaForest and Climate Manager, World Resources Institute , Washington DC, United States of AmericaEarth Systems Research Center, Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire , Durham, NH, United States of AmericaCarboForExpert, 1248 Hermance, SwitzerlandWater Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University , Wageningen, The NetherlandsNASA Ames Research Center/BAERI, Moffett Field, California, CA, United States of AmericaThe forests of Kalimantan are under severe pressure from extensive land use activities dominated by logging, palm oil plantations, and peatland fires. To implement the forest moratorium for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, Indonesia’s government requires information on the carbon stored in forests, including intact, degraded, secondary, and peat swamp forests. We developed a hybrid approach of producing a wall-to-wall map of the aboveground biomass (AGB) of intact and degraded forests of Kalimantan at 1 ha grid cells by combining field inventory plots, airborne lidar samples, and satellite radar and optical imagery. More than 110 000 ha of lidar data were acquired to systematically capture variations of forest structure and more than 104 field plots to develop lidar-biomass models. The lidar measurements were converted into biomass using models developed for 66 439 ha of drylands and 44 250 ha of wetland forests. By combining the AGB map with the national land cover map, we found that 22.3 Mha (10 ^6 ha) of forest remain on drylands ranging in biomass from 357.2 ± 12.3 Mgha ^−1 in relatively intact forests to 134.2 ± 6.1 Mgha ^−1 in severely degraded forests. The remaining peat swamp forests are heterogeneous in coverage and degradation level, extending over 3.62 Mha and having an average AGB of 211.8 ± 12.7 Mgha ^−1 . Emission factors calculated from aboveground biomass only suggest that the carbon storage potential of more than 15 Mha of degraded and secondary dryland forests will be about 1.1 PgC.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad782carbonaboveground biomass mappingforest degradationpeat swamp forestsairborne lidarKalimantan |
| spellingShingle | António Ferraz Sassan Saatchi Liang Xu Stephen Hagen Jerome Chave Yifan Yu Victoria Meyer Mariano Garcia Carlos Silva Orbita Roswintiart Ari Samboko Plinio Sist Sarah Walker Timothy R H Pearson Arief Wijaya Franklin B Sullivan Ervan Rutishauser Dirk Hoekman Sangram Ganguly Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia Environmental Research Letters carbon aboveground biomass mapping forest degradation peat swamp forests airborne lidar Kalimantan |
| title | Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_full | Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_fullStr | Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_short | Carbon storage potential in degraded forests of Kalimantan, Indonesia |
| title_sort | carbon storage potential in degraded forests of kalimantan indonesia |
| topic | carbon aboveground biomass mapping forest degradation peat swamp forests airborne lidar Kalimantan |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad782 |
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