Estimating Long-Term Average Carbon Emissions from Fires in Non-Forest Ecosystems in the Temperate Belt

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.contributor.affiliationCenter for International Forestry Research
cg.contributor.affiliationKhabarovsk Federal Research Centre
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051197
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn2072-4292
cg.issue5
cg.journalRemote Sensing
cg.number1197
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.volume14
dc.contributor.authorOstroukhov, A.
dc.contributor.authorKlimina, E.
dc.contributor.authorKuptsova, V.
dc.contributor.authorNaito, D.
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T05:01:58Zen
dc.date.available2022-07-25T05:01:58Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/120255
dc.titleEstimating Long-Term Average Carbon Emissions from Fires in Non-Forest Ecosystems in the Temperate Belten
dcterms.abstractResearch into pyrogenic carbon emissions in the temperate belt of the Russian Federation has traditionally focused on the impact of forest fires. Nevertheless, ecosystems in which wildfires also make a significant contribution to anthropogenic CO2 emissions are poorly studied. We evaluated the carbon emissions of fires in the non-forest ecosystems of the Middle Amur Lowland, in the Khabarovsk Territory of the Russian Federation. Our study is based on long-term Earth remote sensing data of medium spatial resolution (Landsat 5, 7, and 8) and expeditionary studies (2018–2021). The assessment of carbon directly emitted from wildfires in meadow and meadow–mire temperate ecosystems in the Middle Amur lowland shows that specific emissions from such ecosystems vary, from 1.09 t/ha in dwarf shrub–sphagnum and sphagnum–ledum and sedge–reed fens to 6.01 t/ha in reed–forb, forb, reed, and sedge meadows. Meanwhile, carbon emissions specifically from fires in meadow and meadow–mire ecosystems are less significant—often an order of magnitude less than carbon emissions from forest fires (which reach 37 tC/ha). However, due to their high frequency and the large areas of land burned annually, the total carbon emissions from such fires are comparable to annual emissions from fires in forested areas. The results obtained show that the inadequacy of the methods used in the automatic mapping of burns leads to a significant underestimation of the area of grassland fires and carbon emissions from non-forest fires.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2022-02-28
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOstroukhov, A., Klimina, E., Kuptsova, V. and Naito, D., 2022. Estimating Long-Term Average Carbon Emissions from Fires in Non-Forest Ecosystems in the Temperate Belt. Remote Sensing, 14(5), 1197. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051197.en
dcterms.issued2022-02-23
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMDPI
dcterms.subjectremote sensingen
dcterms.subjectforest ecosystemsen
dcterms.subjectforest fireen
dcterms.subjectemissionsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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