As an important rubber plantation base, Xishuangbanna has been contributing much to the national economic development. However, the ever enlarging scale of rubber plantation has an adverse impact on the natural tropical rainforest, which land-use change has brought irreversible effects to its local ecological environment. The change of ecological environment directly or indirectly leads to regional climate change. The emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) in rubber plantation are different from natural vegetation.
In collaboration with international colleagues, a research group headed by Prof. Li Qingjun has conducted research on the effects of rubber plantation on regional atmospheric chemistry. Entitled “Monoterpene emissions from rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) in a changing landscape and climate: chemical speciation and environmental control”, the research results were published in Global Change Biology 13, 2272-2280.
The research was jointly funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and CAS.
Climate impact of changing landscape in tropical region
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