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Linking soil respiration and water table depth in tropical peatlands with remotely sensed changes in water storage from the gravity recovery and climate experiment

Swails, Erin, Yang, X., Asefi, S., Hergoualc'h, K., Verchot, L., McRoberts, R. E., and Lawrence, D., 2019. Linking soil respiration and water table depth in tropical peatlands with remotely sensed changes in water storage from the gravity recovery and climate experiment. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 24(4):575–590, doi:10.1007/s11027-018-9822-z.

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@ARTICLE{2019MASGC..24..575S,
       author = {{Swails}, Erin and {Yang}, X. and {Asefi}, S. and {Hergoualc'h}, K. and {Verchot}, L. and {McRoberts}, R.~E. and {Lawrence}, D.},
        title = "{Linking soil respiration and water table depth in tropical peatlands with remotely sensed changes in water storage from the gravity recovery and climate experiment}",
      journal = {Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change},
     keywords = {Indonesia, Land use, Oil palm, Greenhouse gas emissions, Climate change},
         year = 2019,
        month = apr,
       volume = {24},
       number = {4},
        pages = {575-590},
     abstract = "{Carbon dioxide (CO$_{2}$) emissions from Southeast Asia peatlands are
        contributing substantially to global anthropogenic emissions to
        the atmosphere. Peatland emissions associated with land-use
        change, and fires are closely related to changes in the water
        table level. Remote sensing is a powerful tool that is
        potentially useful for estimating peat CO$_{2}$ emissions over
        large spatial and temporal scales. We related ground
        measurements of total soil respiration and water table depth
        collected over 19 months in an Indonesian peatland to remotely
        sensed gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE)
        terrestrial water storage anomoly (TWSA) data. GRACE TWSA can be
        used to predict changes in water storage on land. We combined
        ground observations from undrained forest and drained
        smallholder oil palm plantations on peat in Central Kalimantan
        to produce a representation of the peatland landscape in one
        0.5{\textdegree} {\texttimes} 0.5{\textdegree} GRACE grid cell.
        In both ecosystem types, total soil respiration increased with
        increasing water table depth. Across the landscape grid, monthly
        changes in water table depth were significantly related to
        fluctuations in GRACE TWSA. GRACE TWSA explained 76\% of
        variation in water table depth and 75\% of variation in total
        soil respiration measured on the ground. By facilitating regular
        sampling across broad spatial scales that captures essential
        variation in a major driver of soil respiration and peat fires,
        our approach could improve information available to decision
        makers to monitor changes in water table depth and peat CO$_{2}$
        emissions. This would enable measures better targeted in space
        and time to more effectively mitigate CO$_{2}$ emissions from
        tropical peat drainage and fires. Testing over larger regions is
        needed to operationalize this exploratory approach.}",
          doi = {10.1007/s11027-018-9822-z},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MASGC..24..575S},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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