A process-based model for quantifying the effects of canal blocking on water table and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in tropical peatlands
Abstract 2 emissions, the rate of subsidence, and the risk of forest fires. To a certain extent, these effects can be mitigated by raising the water table depth (WTD) using canal or ditch blocks. The performance of canal blocks in raising WTD is, however, poorly understood because the WTD monitoring data are limited and spatially concentrated around canals and canal blocks. This raises the following question: how effective are canal blocks in raising the WTD over large areas? In this work, we composed a process-based hydrological model to assess the peatland restoration performance of 168 canal blocks in a 22 000 ha peatland area in Sumatra, Indonesia. We simulated daily WTD over 1 year using an existing canal block setup and compared it to the situation without blocks. The study was performed across two contrasting weather scenarios representing dry (1997) and wet (2013) years. Our simulations revealed that, while canal blocks had a net positive impact on WTD rise, they lowered WTD in some areas, and the extent of their effect over 1 year was limited to a distance of about 600 m around the canals. We also show that canal blocks are most effective in peatlands with high hydraulic conductivity. Averaging over all modeled scenarios, blocks raised the annual mean WTD by only 1.5 cm. This value was similar in the dry (1.44 cm) and wet (1.57 cm) years, and there was a 2.13 fold difference between the scenarios with large and small hydraulic conductivities (2.05 cm versus 0.96 cm). Using a linear relationship between WTD and CO2 emissions, we estimated that, averaging over peat hydraulic properties, canal blocks prevented the emission of 1.07 Mg ha - 1 CO2 in the dry year and 1.17 Mg ha - 1 CO2 in the wet year. We believe that the modeling tools developed in this work could be adopted by local stakeholders aiming at a more effective and evidence-based approach to canal-block-based peatland restoration.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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A process-based model for quantifying the effects of canal blocking on water table and CO2 emissions in tropical peatlands ; volume:20 ; number:11 ; year:2023 ; pages:2099-2116 ; extent:18
Biogeosciences ; 20, Heft 11 (2023), 2099-2116 (gesamt 18)
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Biowissenschaften, Biologie
- Creator
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Urzainki, Iñaki
Palviainen, Marjo
Hökkä, Hannu
Persch, Sebastian
Chatellier, Jeffrey
Wang, Ophelia
Mahardhitama, Prasetya
Yudhista, Rizaldy
Laurén, Annamari
- DOI
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10.5194/bg-20-2099-2023
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023061504140891723030
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:48 AM CEST
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- Urzainki, Iñaki
- Palviainen, Marjo
- Hökkä, Hannu
- Persch, Sebastian
- Chatellier, Jeffrey
- Wang, Ophelia
- Mahardhitama, Prasetya
- Yudhista, Rizaldy
- Laurén, Annamari
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