Dynamic Peatlands Lab publications

Publications from the NTU Dynamic Peatlands Lab.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Apers S, AR Cobb, GJM De Lannoy, M Bechtold. 2025. Hydrological parametrization of peatland water level dynamics using satellite-based precipitation: a case study in Brunei. Hydrological Processes 39(8), doi:10.1002/hyp.70209.
  2. Collins C, AR Cobb, RS Sukri, J Eri, DA Wardle. 2025. Floristic and soil properties of co-occurring peat and kerangas forests in Brunei Darussalam. Journal of Tropical Ecology 41(e13):1–10, doi:10.1017/S0266467425000112.
  3. Chen, Y, M Müller, AR Cobb, RS Sukri, J Zinke, R Nagarajan, R Sharveen, A Md Ali, P Martin. 2025. Degradability and remineralization of peat-derived terrestrial dissolved organic carbon in the Sunda Shelf Sea. Aquatic Sciences 87:45, doi:10.1007/s00027-025-01170-6 (preprint, ResearchGate).
  4. Trevathan-Tackett, SM, S Kepfer-Rojas, M Malerba, PI Macreadie, . . . , AR Cobb, . . . , MF Adame. 2024. Climate effects on belowground tea litter decomposition depend on ecosystem and organic matter types in global wetlands. Environmental Science & Technology 58(49):21589–21603. doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c02116.
  5. Suhip, MAA, AR Cobb, RS Sukri, M Schirmer, & SH Gödeke. 2024. Groundwater monitoring, geophysical and hydrochemical assessment of highly disturbed peat deposits at Badas, Brunei Darussalam. Mires and Peat 31(19):1–20. doi:10.19189/MaP.2023.CM.Sc.2332104.
  6. Cobb, AR, R Dommain, K Yeap, H Cao, NC Dadap, B Bookhagen, PH Glaser, & CF Harvey. 2024. A unified explanation for the morphology of raised peatlands. Nature 625:79–84, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06807-w (accepted manuscript, ResearchGate).
  7. Cobb, AR, R Dommain, RS Sukri, F Metali, B Bookhagen, & CF Harvey. 2023. Improved terrain estimation from spaceborne lidar in tropical peatlands using spatial filtering. Science of Remote Sensing 7:100074, doi:10.1016/j.srs.2022.100074.
  8. Ogasahara, M, AR Cobb, RS Sukri, F Metali, & K Kamiya. 2023. Genetic structure and population history of a peat swamp forest tree species, Shorea albida (Dipterocarpaceae) in Brunei Darussalam. Genes & Genetic Systems 98:35–44, doi:10.1266/ggs.22-00112.
  9. Deshmukh, CS, AP Susanto, AR Desai, SE Page, AR Cobb, T Hirano, F Guerin, D Serca, YT Prairie, F Agus, D Astiani, S Sabiham, Nardi, Nurholis, S Kurnianto, Y Suardiwerianto, M Hendrizal, A Rhinaldy, RE Mahfiz, & CD Evans. 2023. Net greenhouse gas balance of fiber wood plantation on peat in Indonesia. Nature 616:740–746, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05860-9.
  10. Somers, L, AM Hoyt, AR Cobb, S Isnin, MA Suhip, RS Sukri, L Gandois, & CF Harvey. 2023. Processes controlling methane emissions from a tropical peatland drainage canal. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 128(3):e2022JG007194, doi:10.1029/2022JG007194.
  11. Watmough, S, S Gilbert-Parkes, N Basiliko, JL Lamit, …, AR Cobb, …, G Zahn. 2022. Variation in carbon and nitrogen concentrations among peatland categories at the global scale. PLOS ONE 17(11):e0275149, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0275149.
  12. Dadap, NC, AR Cobb, AM Hoyt, CF Harvey, AF Feldman, E-S Im, AG Konings. 2022. Climate change-induced peatland drying in Southeast Asia. Environmental Research Letters 17:074026, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac7969.
  13. Apers, S, GJM De Lannoy, AJ Baird, AR Cobb, …, M Bechtold. 2022. Tropical peatland hydrology simulated with a global-scale land surface model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14:e2021MS002784, doi:10.1029/2021MS002784.
  14. Verbeke, BA, LJ Lamit, EA Lilleskov, SB Hodgkins, …, AR Cobb, …, JP Chanton. 2022. Latitude, elevation, and mean annual temperature predict peat organic matter chemistry at a global scale. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 36:e2021GB007057, doi:10.1029/2021gb007057.
  15. Addly, AAM, AR Cobb, RS Sukri, SM Jaafar, S Isnin, SK Thamilselvam, SH Gödeke. 2022. Is the residual ash method applicable to tropical peatlands? A case study from Brunei Darussalam. Mires and Peat 28(8): 1–16, doi:10.19189/MaP.2020.GDC.StA.2147.
  16. Mishra, S, SE Page, AR Cobb, JSH Lee, AJ Jovani-Sancho, S Sjögersten, …, DA Wardle. 2021. Degradation of Southeast Asian tropical peatlands and integrated strategies for their better management and restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(7):1370–1387, doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13905.
  17. Dadap, NC, AM Hoyt, AR Cobb, D Oner, M Kozinski, PV Fua, …AG Konings. 2021. Drainage canals in Southeast Asian peatlands increase carbon emissions. AGU Advances 2:e2020AV000321, doi:10.1029/2020av000321.
  18. Akhtar, H, M Lupascu, RS Sukri, TEL Smith, AR Cobb, S Swarup. 2021. Significant sedge-mediated methane emissions from degraded tropical peatlands. Environmental Research Letters 16:014002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abc7dc.
  19. Cobb, AR, R Dommain, Tan F, Heng NHE, CF Harvey. 2020. Carbon storage capacity of tropical peatlands in natural and artificial drainage networks. Environmental Research Letters 15:114009, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aba867.
  20. Suhip, MAA, SH Gödeke, AR Cobb, RS Sukri. 2020. Seismic refraction study, single well test and physical core analysis of anthropogenic degraded peat at Badas Peat Dome, Brunei Darussalam. Engineering Geology 273:105689, doi:10.1016/j.enggeo.2020.105689 (final manuscript, ResearchGate).
  21. Cobb, AR, CF Harvey. 2019. Scalar simulation and parameterization of water-table dynamics in tropical peatlands. Water Resources Research 55:9351–9377, doi:10.1029/2019WR025411.
  22. Dadap, N, AR Cobb, AM Hoyt, CF Harvey, AG Konings. 2019. Satellite soil moisture observations predict burned area in Southeast Asian peatlands. Environmental Research Letters 14(9):094014, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab3891.
  23. Hoyt, AM, L Gandois, Jangarun E, Kai FM, CF Harvey, AR Cobb. 2019. CO2 emissions from an undrained tropical peatland: Interacting influences of temperature, shading and water table depth. Global Change Biology 25(9):2885–2899, doi:10.1111/gcb.14702.
  24. Hodgkins, SB, CJ Richardson, R Dommain, H Wang, PH Glaser, B Verbeke, BR Winkler, AR Cobb, VI Rich, M Missilmani, N Flanagan, M Ho, AM Hoyt, CF Harvey, SR Vining, MA Hough, TR Moore, PJH Richard, FB De La Cruz, J Toufaily, R Hamdan, WT Cooper and JP Chanton. 2018. Tropical peatland carbon storage linked to global latitudinal trends in peat recalcitrance. Nature Communications 9:3640, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06050-2.
  25. Link, RM, B Schuldt, B Choat, S Jansen and AR Cobb. 2018. Maximum-likelihood estimation of xylem vessel length distributions. Journal of Theoretical Biology 455:329–341, doi:10.1016/ j.jtbi.2018.07.036.
  26. Cobb, AR, AM Hoyt, L Gandois, Jangarun E, R Dommain, Kamariah AS, Kai FM, N Salihah HS and CF Harvey. 2017. How temporal patterns in rainfall determine the geomorphology and carbon fluxes of tropical peatlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(26):E5187–E5196, doi:10.1073/pnas.1701090114.
  27. Wijedasa, LS, J Jauhiainen, M Könönen, M Lampela, …AR Cobb, and R Andersen. 2017. Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences. Global Change Biology 23(3):977–982, doi:10.1111/gcb.13516.
  28. Baláž, M, R Jupa, S Jansen, A Cobb, and V Gloser. 2016. Partitioning of vessel resistivity in three liana species. Tree Physiology 36(12):1498–1507, doi:10.1093/treephys/tpw081.
  29. Dommain, R, AR Cobb, H Joosten, PH Glaser, AFL Chua, L Gandois, FM Kai, A Noren, Kamariah AS, Salihah S and CF Harvey. 2015. Forest dynamics and tip-up pools drive pulses of high carbon accumulation rates in a tropical peat dome in Borneo (Southeast Asia). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120(4):617–640, doi:10.1002/2014JG002796.
  30. Ng, BJL, L Hutyra, H Nguyen, AR Cobb, Kai FM, C Harvey, and L Gandois. 2015. Carbon fluxes from an urban tropical grassland. Environmental Pollution 203:227–234, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2014..
  31. Gandois, L, R Teisserenc, AR Cobb, Chieng HI, Lim LBL, Kamariah AS, A Hoyt and CF Harvey. 2014. Origin, composition, and transformation of dissolved organic matter in tropical peatlands. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 137: 35–47, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.012 (final manuscript).
  32. Kai, FM, AR Cobb, AFL Chua, MH Tee, B Ng, L Gandois, and CF Harvey. 2013. An off-grid PV power system for meteorological and eddy covariance flux station in Kranji, Singapore. Energy Procedia 33: 364–373, doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2013.05.077. Highlighted as a Key Scientific Article by Renewable Energy Global Innovations (ISSN 2291-2460).
  33. Gandois, L, AR Cobb, Ing CH, LBL Lim, Kamariah AS, and CF Harvey. 2013. Impact of deforestation on solid and dissolved organic matter characteristics of tropical peat forests: implications for carbon release. Biogeochemistry 114: 183–199 doi:10.1007/s10533-012-9799-8.