Code
01W00520
Duration
01 October 2020 → 27 April 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Mandate holder
- Emmanuel Muhigwa
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Environmental chemistry
Keywords
Greenhouse gas balance
Eddy covariance
soil chamber
mixed evergreen forest
Congo basin
Project description
This research addresses for the first time the full greenhouse gas balance of a typical tropical forest of the Congo basin. This fills a knowledge gap on the function of forest ecosystems for global biogeochemical cycles and climate change mitigation. The eddy covariance technique is used quantify whole ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gas fluxes.