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My research interests mainly focus on the impacts of climate changes on carbon and water dynamics in tropical ecosystems, including forest ecosystems and coastal wetland ecosystems.
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September 2010 - February 2013
January 2018 - December 2024
March 2013 - June 2017
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Studies on the effects of drought on tropical rainforests have revealed their sensitivity on multiple levels, for example, decreased photosynthetic capacity and increased mortality. However, studies on the impact of occasional drought on the rainforests are not enough as they tend to recover from such droughts within a few years. In the present stu...
The unresolved energy-unclosed problem in micrometeorology refers to the fact that the sum of turbulent fluxes (sensible and latent heat fluxes, Hs and LE) monitored by eddy covariance (EC) methods tends to be lower than the available energy (net radiation (Rn), soil heat flux (G), and heat storage (S)). The lack of energy balance closure (EBC) inc...
Background and aims Drought is predicted to have a profound impact on soil respiration. This study aimed to assess the effects of long-term precipitation decrease on soil respiration in a tropical rainforest. Methods A precipitation reduction experiment was conducted in a tropical forest in southwest China at the beginning of 2011. Soil respiration...
To gain the effects of N fertilizer applications on N2O emissions and local climate change in fertilized rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations in the tropics, we measured N2O fluxes from fertilized (75 kg N ha -1 yr -1) and unfertilized rubber plantations at Xishuangbanna in southwest China over a 2-year period. The N2O emissions from the fertili...
To investigate the differences in soil hydrolytic enzyme activity and enzyme stoichiometry among different mangrove communities, as well as the driving factors behind these variations, we will explore their implications for nutrient limitations of soil microbes and the availability of soil nutrients. This study will focus on the Rhizophora stylosa...
Light intensity is one of the main factors determining the growth and distribution of seagrasses, but seagrasses differ in their responses to changes in the light environment, resulting in inconsistent adaptation. To investigate the effect of light reduction on Enhalus acoroides (L. f.) Steud., we simulated different light intensities by setting up...
Tropical forests are characterized by vast biomass, complex structures, and mega-biodiversity. However, the adaptation processes of these forests to seasonal water availability are less understood, especially those located in the monsoonal and mountainous regions of tropical Southeast Asia. This study used four representative tropical forests spann...
Soil respiration represents the largest carbon (C) flux from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere. We created a study site in tropical lowland rainforest and used static chamber method to measure the temporal variations of soil respiration and their relationship with environmental factors at monthly time scale. The temporal variations of soil r...
Marginal water-use efficiency plays a critical role in plant carbon–water coupling relationships. We investigated the ecosystem marginal water-use efficiency (λ) of a tropical seasonal evergreen forest to (1) determine the general pattern of λ across time, (2) compare different models for calculating λ, and (3) address how λ varies with soil water...
Litter inputs are expected to have a strong impact on soil N2O efflux. This study aimed to assess the effects of the litter decomposition process and nutrient efflux from litter to soil on soil N2O efflux in a tropical rainforest. A paired study with a control (L) treatment and a litter-removed (NL) treatment was followed for 2 years, continuously...
Water-use efficiency (WUE) at the whole-plant level plays as an important role as an indicator of both the water-use strategy of the plant, and the ecophysiological processes linking the carbon and water cycles. However, the variation in the annual pattern of WUE, the interannual trends, and the regulating factors of WUE in rubber plantations remai...
Extension of the rotation length in forest management has been highlighted in
Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol to help the countries in their commitments for
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. CO2FIX Model Ver.3.2 was used to
examine the dynamics of carbon stocks (C stocks) in a rubber plantation in South
Western China with the changing rotati...
Transpiration rate of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) was measured continuously from
February to November in 2013, using the Granier爷s thermal dissipation probe method. The main
environmental factors (including air temperature, relative humidity, photosynthetically active ra鄄
diation (PAR) and soil moisture) were also measured simultaneously. The...
The regrowth of tropical secondary forests and plantations can not offset the carbon release caused by tropical deforestation, consequently determining net carbon losses on tropical lands. However, large uncertainties remain in relation to this assumption. Here, we used a biometric method to estimate the net dry matter production and net ecosystem...
Elongation of the rotation length in forest management has been highlighted in Article 3.4 of the
Kyoto Protocol to help the countries in their commitments for reduction in greenhouse emissions.
CO2 FIX model Ver.3.1 was used to analyse how the carbon stock of the rubber plantation in
South Western China shows dynamics with the changing rotation...
From late 2009 to 2010, southwestern China experienced a severe drought. We evaluated the self-organisation of a seasonal tropical rainforest in response to drought stress. The forest had the least self-organization in 2010, and during the dry season (March-April) of 2010, the forest was least able to capture exergy (Rn/DR). The rate of long wave r...
Although numerous studies have been conducted to investigate ecosystem-scale soil respiration, our understanding of this process is still incomplete, especially with respect to the spatial variability and ecological factors that drive such variability in respiration. The present study was conducted to investigate the respiration, structural paramet...
