Expansion of oil palm and other cash crops causes an increase of the land surface temperature in the Jambi province in Indonesia

Sabajo Clifton R., Le Maire Guerric, June Tania, Meijide Ana, Roupsard Olivier, Knohl Alexander. 2017. Expansion of oil palm and other cash crops causes an increase of the land surface temperature in the Jambi province in Indonesia. Biogeosciences, 14 (20) : 4619-4635.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4619-2017

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Quartile : Q1, Sujet : GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY / Quartile : Q2, Sujet : ECOLOGY

Résumé : Indonesia is currently one of the regions with the highest transformation rate of land surface worldwide related to the expansion of oil palm plantations and other cash crops replacing forests on large scales. Land cover changes, which modify land surface properties, have a direct effect on the land surface temperature (LST), a key driver for many ecological functions. Despite the large historic land transformation in Indonesia toward oil palm and other cash crops and governmental plans for future expansion, this is the first study so far to quantify the impacts of land transformation on the LST in Indonesia. We analyze LST from the thermal band of a Landsat image and produce a high-resolution surface temperature map (30 m) for the lowlands of the Jambi province in Sumatra (Indonesia), a region which suffered large land transformation towards oil palm and other cash crops over the past decades. The comparison of LST, albedo, normalized differenced vegetation index (NDVI) and evapotranspiration (ET) between seven different land cover types (forest, urban areas, clear-cut land, young and mature oil palm plantations, acacia and rubber plantations) shows that forests have lower surface temperatures than the other land cover types, indicating a local warming effect after forest conversion. LST differences were up to 10.1 ± 2.6 °C (mean ± SD) between forest and clear-cut land. The differences in surface temperatures are explained by an evaporative cooling effect, which offsets the albedo warming effect. Our analysis of the LST trend of the past 16 years based on MODIS data shows that the average daytime surface temperature in the Jambi province increased by 1.05 °C, which followed the trend of observed land cover changes and exceeded the effects of climate warming. This study provides evidence that the expansion of oil palm plantations and other cash crops leads to changes in biophysical variables, warming the land surface and thus enhancing the increase of the air temperature because of climate change.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : Elaeis guineensis, Landsat

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Indonésie

Mots-clés libres : Oil palm, Land surface temperature, Indonesia, Remote sensing, Land use change

Classification Agris : F01 - Culture des plantes
U30 - Méthodes de recherche
B10 - Géographie

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 1 (2014-2018) - Agriculture écologiquement intensive

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