Publications by authors named "Kevin K Musin"
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- A study in Sarawak, Malaysia measured carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange in tropical peat swamp forests over four years using the eddy covariance technique, revealing varied CO2 fluxes by season and year.* -
- Initially, the forest showed a small carbon uptake during the rainy season in early 2011, but throughout the following years, it consistently emitted more carbon than it absorbed, particularly during the rainy season.* -
- The findings challenge the idea that tropical peat forests are always carbon sinks, indicating instead that they were net sources of CO2, with ecosystem productivity linked to vapor pressure deficit (VPD), which could decrease the forest's carbon-sequestering ability in the future.*
Tropical rainforests control the exchange of water and energy between the land surface and the atmosphere near the equator and thus play an important role in the global climate system. Measurements of latent (LE) and sensible heat exchange (H) have not been synthesized across global tropical rainforests to date, which can help place observations from individual tropical forests in a global context. We measured LE and H for four years in a tropical peat forest ecosystem in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo using eddy covariance, and hypothesize that the study ecosystem will exhibit less seasonal variability in turbulent fluxes than other tropical ecosystems as soil water is not expected to be limiting in a tropical forested wetland.
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