Advances in Meteorology

Research Article

Carbon Exchange between the Atmosphere and a Subtropical Evergreen Mountain Forest in Taiwan

Table 4

Yearly sums of NEE and R_E from this study and other studies. Estimates of yearly live-tree biomass with forest inventory methods (positive values represent carbon sequestration) around the flux tower and in the whole Xitou area. Numbers in parentheses are single standard deviations.


Reference	NEE	R_E
Reference	g·C·m⁻²·yr⁻¹

This study: mean 2011–2013	NEE_EC = −1,060 (±38) NEE_X = −561 (±114)	R_{E_NB} = 983 (±51) R_{E_DB} = 1,828 (±115)
Tan et al. [34] quantify the carbon uptake of a 300-year-old subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest	∼−900	—
Yu et al. [4], East Asian monsoon region	−362 (±39)	—
Takanashi et al. [35], Japanese cedar forest in Japan 2001 and 2002 [35]	−477, −480	991, 1,129
Saitoh et al. [36], mostly Japanese cedar and Japanese cypress forest in Japan; 2006 and 2007	−330, −350	1,740, 1980
Kosugi et al. [37] analyse 7 years of data; 50-year-old forest consisting Japanese cypress (method 1-> night-based gap-filling; method 2-> day-based gap filling)	m1 = −490 m2 = −630	m1 = 1,555 m2 = 1,554
Luyssaert et al. [3], combining 29 tropical humid evergreen forest sites	−403 (±102)	3061 (±56)
	Yearly increase in live-tree biomass (g·C·m⁻²·yr⁻¹)
Forest biomass survey in Xitou Forest inventroy and analysis (FIA) plot design; mean of 4 plots from 2011–2017 linear interpolated	560	—
Cheng et al. [38], forest inventory methods, complete analysis of Xitou area	265	—