Use of a flexible chamber to measure stem respiration

Autor: I-Ling Lai, Otto Klemm, Bettina Breuer, Jui-Chu Yu, Yen-Jen Lai, Eike M. Esders
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Trees. 35:319-323
ISSN: 1432-2285
0931-1890
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-020-02009-3
Popis: A flexible stem respiration chamber was developed and successfully employed in a feasibility study in a tropical forest. We present a flexible chamber to measure the CO2 efflux from tree bark. The easy-to-use chamber is made of stainless steel and is clamped around an individual tree stem section; it uses a portable gas analyzer to retrieve the stem respiration value. Using the individual data points in combination with data from a forest inventory, the data can, in principle, be up-scaled to achieve the stand-scale stem respiration. We performed a feasibility study in a young forest plantation in tropical southern Taiwan, which yielded robust and meaningful results.
Databáze: OpenAIRE