CO 2 balance of a secondary tropical peat swamp forest in Sarawak, Malaysia

Autor: Guan Xhuan Wong, Joseph Wenceslaus Waili, Kim San Lo, Lulie Melling, Mariko Shimizu, Ryuichi Hirata, Edward Baran Aeries, Kevin Kemudang Musin, Takashi Hirano, Frankie Kiew
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 248:494-501
ISSN: 0168-1923
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.022
Popis: Tropical peat swamp forest (PSF) has accumulated a huge amount of carbon as peat over millennia, though the carbon rich ecosystem is now threatened with disturbances due to land-use change to industrial plantations of oil palm and pulp woods. Through the land conversion, peat carbon has become vulnerable and potentially changes to a great carbon dioxide (CO2) source to the atmosphere. It is essential to quantify the CO2 balance of the ecosystem and understand how the CO2 balance responds to environmental changes to predict the role of PSF in global carbon cycles. However, filed studies based on the ecosystem-scale monitoring of CO2 flux are quite limited. Thus, we began CO2 flux monitoring over a secondary PSF in Sarawak, Malaysia, by the eddy covariance technique in 2010. Daily NEE and RE were significantly different between the dry and wet periods (p
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