SIGIT SASMITO

Research Fellow, Temasek-funded INTPREP

Sigit Sasmito Sigit Deni Sasmito is a wetlands ecologist who has particular research interests to study the impacts of contemporary global change on tropical wetland ecosystems including peatlands and mangrove. Currently, his research is focused to improve current understanding of terrestrial carbon cycle in tropical peatlands using both global scale systematic review approach and landscape scale field assessment. In NUS, he is mainly working on the assessment of carbon fluxes mechanism between vegetation-soil-atmosphere interfaces under different range of peatlands management regimes by using stable isotopes and radiocarbon approaches. The outcome of his current research will be contributed to the science of tropical peatlands restoration and decomposition.

Sigit holds a PhD in Environmental Science from Charles Darwin University, Australia and BSc in Applied Meteorology from IPB University, Indonesia. He has also previously extensive working experiences with The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

Selected publication:

Sasmito, Sillanpää, Hayes, Bachri, Saragi-Sasmito, Sidik, Hanggara, Mofu, Rumbiak, Hendri, Rumbiak, Taberima, Suhaemi, Nugroho, Pattiasina, Widagti, Barakalla, Rahajoe, Hartantri, Nikijuluw, Jowey, Heatunubun, Ermgassen, Worthington, Howard, Lovelock, Friess, Hutley, Murdiyarso. 2020. Mangrove blue carbon stocks and dynamics are controlled by hydrogeomorphic settings and land-use change. Global Change Biology, 26 (5), 3028-3039. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15056
Sasmito, Kuzyakov, Lubis, Murdiyarso, Hutley, Bachri, Friess, Martius, Borchard. 2020. Carbon burial and sources in soils of coastal mudflat and mangrove ecosystems. Catena, 187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.104414
Sasmito, Taillardat, Clendenning, Cameron, Friess, Murdiyarso, Hutley. 2019. The effect of land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC) on mangrove blue carbon: a systematic review. Global Change Biology, 25 (12), 4291-4302. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14774
Saragi-Sasmito, Murdiyarso, June, Sasmito. 2019. Carbon stocks, emissions, and aboveground productivity in restored secondary tropical peat swamp forests. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 24 (4), 521-533. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-018-9793-0
Nam, Sasmito, MacKenzie, Murdiyarso, Purbopuspito. 2016. Carbon stocks in artificially and naturally regenerated mangrove ecosystems in the Mekong Delta. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 24 (2), 231-244 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-015-9479-2
Sasmito, Murdiyarso, Friess, Kurnianto. 2016. Can mangroves keep pace with contemporary sea level rise? A global data review. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 24 (2), 263-278 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-015-9466-7