Carbon dioxide emissions through land use change, fire, and oxidative peat decomposition in Borneo.

ABSTRACT: Borneo has accumulated an abundance of woody carbon in its forests and peat. However, agricultural land conversion accompanied by plantation development, dead wood burning, and peat drying from drainage are major challenges to climate change mitigation. This study aimed to develop a method of estimating carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from land use change, forest and peat fires, and oxidative peat decomposition, and CO₂ uptake from biomass growth across Borneo using remote sensing data from 2001 to 2016. Although CO₂ uptake by biomass growth in vast forests has shown a significant increasing trend, an annual net release of 461.10 ± 436.51 (average ± 1 standard deviation) Tg CO₂ year^-1 was observed. The estimated emissions were predomina

SUBMITTER: Shiraishi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10421864 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature