ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2016
In the line of fire: the peatlands of Southeast Asia.
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- Transforming tropical peatland governance to manage climate risks using the Three Horizons method.PloS one · 2025Article
- Wildfire legacies on pyrogenic carbon stocks in Amazonian peatlands.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Tropical peat composition may provide a negative feedback on fire occurrence and severity.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Anthropogenic warming is a key climate indicator of rising urban fire activity in China.National science review · 2024Article
- Elevated methane flux in a tropical peatland post-fire is linked to depth-dependent changes in peat microbiome assembly.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2024Article
- Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Catastrophic impact of extreme 2019 Indonesian peatland fires on urban air quality and health.Communications earth & environment · 2024Article
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- Accuracy of tropical peat and non-peat fire forecasts enhanced by simulating hydrology.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Fire regime of peatlands in the Angolan Highlands.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2022Article
- Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
- Knowledge systems approaches for enhancing project impacts in complex settings: community fire management and peatland restoration in Indonesia.Regional environmental change · 2022Article
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- Tropical forests as key sites of the "Anthropocene": Past and present perspectives.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics.Global change biology · 2021Article
- Carbon emissions from the peat fire problem-a review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Review
- Top-Down Estimation of Particulate Matter Emissions from Extreme Tropical Peatland Fires Using Geostationary Satellite Fire Radiative Power Observations.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Peatlands are a significant component of the global carbon (C) cycle, yet despite their role as a long-term C sink throughout the Holocene, they are increasingly vulnerable to destabilization. Nowhere is this shift from sink to source happening more rapidly than in Southeast Asia, and nowhere else are the combined pressures of land-use change and fire on peatland ecosystem C dynamics more evident nor the consequences more apparent. This review focuses on the peatlands of this region, tracing the link between deforestation and drainage and accelerating C emissions arising from peat mineralization and fire. It focuses on the implications of the recent increase in fire occurrence for air quality, human health, ecosystem resilience and the global C cycle. The scale and controls on peat-driven C emissions are addressed, noting that although fires cause large, temporary peaks in C flux to the atmosphere, year-round emissions from peat mineralization are of a similar magnitude. The review concludes by advocating land management options to reduce future fire risk as part of wider peatland management strategies, while also proposing that this region's peat fire dynamic could become increasingly relevant to northern peatlands in a warming world.This article is part of the themed issue 'The interaction of fire and mankind'.
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