Abstract:
South-western China is one of the most biodiverse and ecologically sensitive regions of the world and receives considerable research attention. In addition, almost all types of forest ecosystem, including tropical seasonal rainforest, tropical rubber plantations, tropical savanna, evergreen broad-leaved subtropical forest, both warm and cold temperate coniferous forests, dry and warm valley scrubs as well as subalpine and alpine scrubs can be found in Yunnan, South-western China. However, for the past several decades anthropogenic activities and climate change induced frequent disturbances such as heavy snowfall, drought. Further, ongoing climate change scenario also is expected to increase more frequent, extreme climate events in the future (IPCC, 2021), with major implications for ecosystem carbon and water cycle. As a result of frequent droughts will increase the drought related stress, particularly when coupled with higher temperatures, which can reduce the overall trees survival, with major implications for the land carbon sink. At the same time, warmer temperatures also increase evaporative demand, leading to drought stresses huge mortality in trees. In this seminar, I will talk about mostly how extreme climate events affect the Carbon, Water and Energy fluxes of tropical and subtropical forests ecosystem of southwest China.
Speaker: Dr. Gnanamoorthy
Affiliation: XTBG
Time: 4:30 PM, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022
Venue: ZOOM 会议平台 会议 ID：312 430 8960 会议密码 PWD：666666
ZOOM
会议 ID：312 430 8960
会议密码 PWD：666666
