Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Area Burned
3.2. Impact of Fires on Carbon Content (C%) of Surface Fuels and Peat
3.3. Mass Loss from Aboveground Shrubs and Litter and from Belowground Rhizomes, Roots and Peat
3.4. Combustion of Peat Surface during Fires
3.5. Emission Factors and Emission from Recurrently Burned Degraded Peatlands
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Component | Site 1 | Site 2 |
---|---|---|
Date of measurements | 15 July 2019 | 5 September 2019 |
Number of burned plots | 3 | 4 |
Number of unburned plots | 3 | 4 |
Number of samples, burned plots | 9 | 12 |
Number of samples, unburned plots | 9 | 12 |
Vegetation type | Degraded peatland | Degraded peatland |
Fire history | 2003, 2006, 2009 | 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009 |
Treatment | Component | Site 1 | Site 2 | Average |
---|---|---|---|---|
Burned | Litter | 39.3 ± 0.46 | 50.40 ± 1.31 | 45.2 ± 1.49 |
Shrub | Not present | 47.35 ± 0.42 | 47.4 ± 0.43 | |
Peat, 0–10 cm | 45.03 ± 0.23 | 38.14 ± 2.35 | 41.1 ± 1.53 | |
Unburned | Litter | 49.76 ± 0.42 | 52.06 ± 0.71 | 51.1 ± 0.52 |
Shrub | 46.88 ± 0.41 | 47.37 ± 0.31 | 47.2 ± 0.25 | |
Peat, 0–10 cm | 51.41 ± 1.10 | 41.21 ± 2.51 | 45.6 ± 1.86 |
Component | Burned | Unburned |
---|---|---|
Site 1 | 0.131 ± 0.008 (9) | 0.149 ± 0.007 (9) |
Site 2 | 0.149 ± 0.007 (12) | 0.165 ± 0.011 (12) |
Component | Burned | Unburned | Loss | p Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Shrub | 0.63 ± 0.27 | 4.57 ± 0.47 | 4.04 ± 0.56 | <0.001 |
Litter | 3.99 ± 0.62 | 3.43 ± 0.41 | −0.56 ± 0.79 | n/s |
Peat (0–11 cm) | 63.4 ± 3.21 | 78.4 ± 3.88 | 15.02 ± 4.76 | 0.004 |
Total | 18.50 ± 4.88 |
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Volkova, L.; Adinugroho, W.C.; Krisnawati, H.; Imanuddin, R.; Weston, C.J. Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia. Fire 2021, 4, 64. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fire4040064
Volkova L, Adinugroho WC, Krisnawati H, Imanuddin R, Weston CJ. Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia. Fire. 2021; 4(4):64. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fire4040064
Chicago/Turabian StyleVolkova, Liubov, Wahyu Catur Adinugroho, Haruni Krisnawati, Rinaldi Imanuddin, and Christopher John Weston. 2021. "Loss and Recovery of Carbon in Repeatedly Burned Degraded Peatlands of Kalimantan, Indonesia" Fire 4, no. 4: 64. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/fire4040064