CO2 balance of a secondary tropical peat swamp forest in Sarawak, Malaysia

Abstract

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.

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Keywords

Eddy covariance technique, Groundwater level, Peat carbon, Peat decomposition, Precipitation

Citation

Kiew, F., Hirata, R., Hirano, T., Wong, G. X., Aeries, E. B., Musin, K. K., ... & Melling, L. (2018). CO2 balance of a secondary tropical peat swamp forest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 248, 494-501.

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