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Fire in Borneo Peatlands

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Fire is presently the most important disturbance affecting vegetation cover at a global scale, with an estimated 6 million km2 affected on an annual basis (Mouillot and Field 2005). The largest increase in regional fire activity is currently occurring in the humid tropics, particularly in the rainforests of Southeast Asia and South America. Before recent times, fire activity was both infrequent and atypical of these tropical forest environments, but now wildfires are increasing rapidly, resulting in extensive forest loss and degradation and a wide range of environmental, social, and economic impacts (Cochrane 2006).

Keywords

  • Agricultural expansion
  • Combretocarpus rotundatus
  • Disturbance
  • Forest degradation
  • Peatland fire
  • Southeast Asia

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Bennett Building F47, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK

    Sue Page

  2. Remote Sensing Centre, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Modzelewskiego 27, 02-679, Warsaw, Poland

    Agata Hoscilo

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  1. Dept. of Ecology and Biodiversity, Charles Sturt University Inst. for Land, Water and Society, Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. Great Somerford, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

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  3. Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, UNESCO-IHE Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, Delft, The Netherlands

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  4. RM Wetland & Environment Ltd. , Littleworth, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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  5. USGS National Wetlands Research Center , Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

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  6. Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

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Page, S., Hoscilo, A. (2016). Fire in Borneo Peatlands. In: , et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_11-2

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