Evaluating ex situ rates of carbon dioxide flux from northern Borneo peat swamp soils

TY - JOUR

T1 - Evaluating ex situ rates of carbon dioxide flux from northern Borneo peat swamp soils

AU - Low Ying Si, Eliza

AU - Chadwick, Michael

AU - Smith, Thomas E.l.

AU - Sukmaria Sukri, Rahayu

N1 - Funding Information: This work was funded in part by the Department of Geography, King’s College London, the Royal Geographic Society and the International Consortium of Universities for the Study of Biodiversity and the Environment (iCUBE). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.

PY - 2022/2/7

Y1 - 2022/2/7

N2 - This study quantified CO2 emissions from tropical peat swamp soils in Brunei Darussalam. At each site, soil was collected from areas of intact and degraded peat and CO2 flux, and total organic content were measured ex situ. Soil organic content (20-99%) was not significantly different between intact and degraded forest samples. CO2 flux was higher for intact forest samples than degraded forest samples (1.0 vs. 0.6molCO2m-2s-1, respectively) but did not differ among forest locations. From our laboratory experiments, we estimated a potential emissions of 10-20tCO2ha-1y-1 which is in the lower range of values reported for other tropical peat swamps. However, our results are likely affected by unmeasured variation in root respiration and the lability of resident carbon. Overall, these findings provide experimental evidence to support that clearance of tropical peat swamp forests can increase CO2 emissions due to faster rates of decomposition.

AB - This study quantified CO2 emissions from tropical peat swamp soils in Brunei Darussalam. At each site, soil was collected from areas of intact and degraded peat and CO2 flux, and total organic content were measured ex situ. Soil organic content (20-99%) was not significantly different between intact and degraded forest samples. CO2 flux was higher for intact forest samples than degraded forest samples (1.0 vs. 0.6molCO2m-2s-1, respectively) but did not differ among forest locations. From our laboratory experiments, we estimated a potential emissions of 10-20tCO2ha-1y-1 which is in the lower range of values reported for other tropical peat swamps. However, our results are likely affected by unmeasured variation in root respiration and the lability of resident carbon. Overall, these findings provide experimental evidence to support that clearance of tropical peat swamp forests can increase CO2 emissions due to faster rates of decomposition.

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U2 - 10.1017/exp.2022.2

DO - 10.1017/exp.2022.2

M3 - Article

SN - 2516-712X

VL - 3

JO - Experimental Results

JF - Experimental Results

M1 - e4

ER -