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To investigate the magnitude of the carbon sources/sinks for a range of terrestrial ecosystems, in respect of climate, species, age and geographical locations.
To understand the effect of inter and intra-annual climate variations on the magnitude of carbon, water and energy exchanges of terrestrial ecosystems.
To investigate the role of soil, wood and leaves biomass respiration on the partition of the ecosystem carbon exchanges.
To verify the biometric approach versus micrometeorological method for measuring the ecosystem carbon exchanges.
To investigate the role of forest management on the ecosystem carbon, water and energy cycles.
To study the effects of natural (wild fires, insect pests, typhoons, etc.) and human induced (logging, land use change, over grazing, etc.) disturbances on carbon and water cycles in Asian terrestrial ecosystems.
To coordinate the tower-based carbon flux research group with the atmospheric, oceanic, soil, and terrestrial water research groups.
To extrapolate the ground based measurements in both space and time by using remote sensing and modeling.