Droughts, wildfires, and forest carbon cycling: A pantropical synthesis

PM Brando, L Paolucci, CC Ummenhofer… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Tropical woody plants store∼ 230 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in their aboveground living
biomass. This review suggests that these stocks are currently growing in primary forests at …

A scoping review on the health effects of smoke haze from vegetation and peatland fires in Southeast Asia: Issues with study approaches and interpretation

VLH Phung, A Uttajug, K Ueda, N Yulianti, MT Latif… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Smoke haze due to vegetation and peatland fires in Southeast Asia is a serious public
health concern. Several approaches have been applied in previous studies; however, the …

Peatland groundwater level in the Indonesian maritime continent as an alert for El Niño and moderate positive Indian Ocean dipole events

A Sulaiman, M Osaki, H Takahashi, MD Yamanaka… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In general, it is known that extreme climatic conditions such as El Niño and positive Indian
Ocean Dipole (IOD+) cause prolonged drought in Indonesia's tropical peatlands so that …

Fire carbon emissions over Equatorial Asia reduced by shortened dry seasons

S Wang, B He, HW Chen, D Chen, Y Chen… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Fire carbon emissions over Equatorial Asia (EQAS) play a critical role in the global carbon
cycle. Most regional fire emissions (89.0%) occur in the dry season, but how changes in the …

Gaseous, particulate matter, carbonaceous compound, water-soluble ion, and trace metal emissions measured from 2019 peatland fires in Palangka Raya, Central …

P Lestari, AR Tasrifani, WI Suri, MJ Wooster… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aimed to develop field emission factors of gaseous pollutants, PM 2.5, OC/EC,
water-soluble ions, and trace elements and to estimate the total gas and particulate …

Governing the ungovernable: The politics of disciplining pulpwood and palm oil plantations in Indonesia's tropical peatland

R Astuti - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines new governmental technologies that are emerging in Indonesia to
address socio-ecological crises resulting from the conversion of peat forest landscapes to …

Peatland fire weather conditions in Sumatra, Indonesia

H Hayasaka - Climate, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study was conducted to identify the fire weather conditions needed to assess future
peatland fires under climate change. Recent peatland fires in Indonesia have resulted in …

New approach evaluating peatland fires in Indonesian factors

H Hayasaka, A Usup, D Naito - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Until 2018, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) was used as an explanation for fires in
Indonesia's peatlands. However, when the 2019 fires occurred independently of El Niño …

Determining critical groundwater level to prevent degraded peatland from severe peat fire

EI Putra, MA Cochrane, Y Vetrita… - … Series: Earth and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Peat fires have been a severe recurrent problem for Indonesia, but droughts due to
prolonged dry season aggravate burning conditions. To get a better understanding of this …

Severe air pollution due to peat fires during 2015 super El Niño in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

H Hayasaka, A Sepriando - … research applications in South and Southeast …, 2018 - Springer
Severe air pollution due to biomass burning occurred again in Indonesia during the 2015
super El Niño. In this study, air pollution data measured at Palangkaraya, near the northern …