Liangber
Asian terrestrial ecosystems occupy vast areas from tropical forests and wetlands in Southeast Asia to boreal ecosystems in northeastern Asia, and as well as alpine ecosystems on the Tibet Plateau. These ecosystems play important roles in regional and global carbon cycle and global warming mitigation. Accurately quantifying CO2/CH4 balances is critical for setting targets for their emission reductions and to identify and promote effective mitigation strategies. Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Naishen LIANG has been developing a multi-channel automated chamBER network (Liangber) that covers the boreal ecosystems in Siberian and Alaska, temperate forests and grassland in East Asia, wetlands and permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau, and subtropical and tropical forests and wetlands in Southeast Asia, for continuous measurements of CO2/CH4 budget as well as net ecosystem production. Among the sites, more than ten forests are using for conducting soil warming experiments.