Impacts of rainfall on peat fire during the dry season and wet dry season on degraded tropical peatland in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Agus Kurniawan; Laura Graham; Grahame Applegate; Budi Virni; Acep Akbar; Etik Erna Wati Hadi; Nafila Idrus

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1315/1/012060

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Impacts of rainfall on peat fire during the dry season and wet dry season on degraded tropical peatland in South Sumatra, Indonesia

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Impacts of rainfall on peat fire during the dry season and wet dry season on degraded tropical peatland in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Agus Kurniawan, Laura Graham, Grahame Applegate, Budi Virni, Acep Akbar, Etik Erna Wati Hadi and Nafila Idrus

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol.1315, pp.1-8

International Conference on Tropical Silviculture, 4th (Bogor, Indonesia, 24-Aug-2023)

Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1315/1/012060

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Abstract

Climate change

Climatology

Correlation

Dry season

Ecological effects

Ecological function

Fire damage

Fires

Geophysics

Global warming

Hydrology

Local communities

Peat

Peatlands

Rain

Rainfall

Rainfall distribution

Seasons

Weather

Peat fires on cleared and drained tropical peatlands continue to cause tremendous damage to their ecological functions, contribute to global warming, and reduce in health of local communities, where the fire incidents in 2019 and 2020 correlated with weather conditions. The research aims to determine and clarify the correlation between rainfall dynamics and the occurrence and severity of peat fires in degraded tropical peatlands in South Sumatra, Indonesia. The research was conducted by recording rainfall Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) data, surface and peat fuel, and peat fire area primer data from 2019 to 2020. The results show that two types of weather correlate with the size of the burned area in the Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI) regency. Temporal rainfall distribution, quantity, and duration a determining factor for the transition of surface fires to peat fires, especially in the role they play in the hydrology and moisture conditions of peat and surface fuels. This study will present the effect of rainfall in the dry and wet dry seasons on peatland fires and the extent of peat fires that occurred in two years.

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Title: Impacts of rainfall on peat fire during the dry season and wet dry season on degraded tropical peatland in South Sumatra, Indonesia
Authors: Agus Kurniawan (Corresponding Author) - National Research and Innovation Agency
Laura Graham - Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation
Grahame Applegate - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Budi Virni - National Research and Innovation Agency
Acep Akbar - National Research and Innovation Agency
Etik Erna Wati Hadi - National Research and Innovation Agency
Nafila Idrus - Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation
Publication details: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol.1315, pp.1-8
Conference details: International Conference on Tropical Silviculture, 4th (Bogor, Indonesia, 24-Aug-2023)
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
Date published: 2024
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1315/1/012060
ISSN: 1755-1315; 1755-1307
Copyright note: Content from this work may be used under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991010098802621
Output Type: Conference paper

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