Fire-driven biomass and peat carbon losses and post-fire soil CO2 emission in a West Kalimantan peatland forest

Astiani D., . and Curran L. M., . and Burhanuddin, . and Taherzadeh M., . and Mujiman, . and Hatta M., . and Pamungkas W., . and Evi Gusmayanti, . Fire-driven biomass and peat carbon losses and post-fire soil CO2 emission in a West Kalimantan peatland forest. pp. 570-575. ISSN 0128-1283

Indonesian peatland forest is considered a huge sink of tropical carbon and thereby make significant contribution to global terrestrial carbon storage. However landcover and landuse changes in this ecosystem have incurred a synergistic exposure to drought and wildfires. Deforestation and forest degradation through combustion and decomposition of forest biomass and soil carbon have become global issues because of their greenhouse gas contribution to global climate change. Thus fire-driven carbon losses in these peatlands haveincreased the need to evaluate the impacts of fire at a landscape scale. In 6“10 week dry periods from January to April 2014 and in January 2015 wildfires burnt peatland forest in Kubu Raya West Kalimantan province (Indonesian Borneo). An assessment was conducted to provide more reliable estimates of the effects of fire on aboveground and soil carbon losses and their dynamics in the coastal peatlands of the province. Carbon loss from combustion of both aboveground biomass and peat soil was substantial. Moreover CO2 emission from soil respiration at the burnt peat surface increased 46 over the first 9 months after the fire. This study clearly showed the magnitude of fire-driven carbon loss and the scale of CO2 emission to the atmosphere arising from fire in tropical peatland forest.

Full text available from: Official URL: https://www.frim.gov.my/v1/jtfsonline/jtfs/v30n4/5...

Abstract

Indonesian peatland forest is considered a huge sink of tropical carbon and thereby make significant contribution to global terrestrial carbon storage. However landcover and landuse changes in this ecosystem have incurred a synergistic exposure to drought and wildfires. Deforestation and forest degradation through combustion and decomposition of forest biomass and soil carbon have become global issues because of their greenhouse gas contribution to global climate change. Thus fire-driven carbon losses in these peatlands haveincreased the need to evaluate the impacts of fire at a landscape scale. In 6“10 week dry periods from January to April 2014 and in January 2015 wildfires burnt peatland forest in Kubu Raya West Kalimantan province (Indonesian Borneo). An assessment was conducted to provide more reliable estimates of the effects of fire on aboveground and soil carbon losses and their dynamics in the coastal peatlands of the province. Carbon loss from combustion of both aboveground biomass and peat soil was substantial. Moreover CO2 emission from soil respiration at the burnt peat surface increased 46 over the first 9 months after the fire. This study clearly showed the magnitude of fire-driven carbon loss and the scale of CO2 emission to the atmosphere arising from fire in tropical peatland forest.

[error in script]

Item Type:	Article
AGROVOC Term:	Peatlands
AGROVOC Term:	Tropical forests
AGROVOC Term:	Peat soils
AGROVOC Term:	Wildfires
AGROVOC Term:	Carbon dioxide
AGROVOC Term:	emission
AGROVOC Term:	Pollutant emission
AGROVOC Term:	Biomass
AGROVOC Term:	Soil respiration
AGROVOC Term:	Deforestation
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 06:29
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24763

Actions (login required)

View Item