Evapotranspiration of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivated at two plantation sites in Southeast Asia
Abstract
The expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivation to higher latitudes and higher elevations in southeast Asia is part of a dramatic shift in the direction of rural land cover change in the region toward more tree covered landscapes. To investigate the possible effects of increasing rubber cultivation in the region on ecosystem services including water cycling, eddy covariance towers were established to measure ecosystem fluxes within two rubber plantations, one each in Bueng Kan, northeastern Thailand, and Kampong Cham, central Cambodia. The results show that evapotranspiration (ET) at both sites is strongly related to variations in available energy and leaf area, and moderately controlled by soil moisture. Measured mean annual ET was 1128 and 1272 mm for the Thailand and Cambodia sites, respectively. After adjustment for energy closure, mean annual was estimated to be 1211 and 1459 mm yr at the Thailand and Cambodia sites, respectively. Based on these estimates and that of another site in Xishuangbanna, southwestern China, it appears that of rubber is higher than that of other tree dominated land covers in the region, including forest. While measurements by others in non rubber tropical ecosystems indicate that at high net radiation sites is at most only slightlymore »
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- Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI (United States); Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
- Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
- Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
- Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI (United States); Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan)
- Cambodian Rubber Research Inst., Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- East-West Center, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Univ. of Singapore (NUS); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS); Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan; Asia‐Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1255374
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-106078
Journal ID: ISSN 0043-1397; 830403000
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830; NNG04GH59G; NNX08AL90G; R‐109‐000‐092‐133; ARCP2008‐01CMY
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Water Resources Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 52; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0043-1397
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; evapotranspiration; tropical tree plantations; brevideciduous tree; rubber cultivation; eddy covariance; leaf area
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Giambelluca, Thomas W., Mudd, Ryan G., Liu, Wen, Ziegler, Alan D., Kobayashi, Nakako, Kumagai, Tomo'omi, Miyazawa, Yoshiyuki, Lim, Tiva Khan, Huang, Maoyi, Fox, Jefferson, Yin, Song, Mak, Sophea Veasna, and Kasemsap, Poonpipope. Evapotranspiration of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivated at two plantation sites in Southeast Asia. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1002/2015WR017755.
Giambelluca, Thomas W., Mudd, Ryan G., Liu, Wen, Ziegler, Alan D., Kobayashi, Nakako, Kumagai, Tomo'omi, Miyazawa, Yoshiyuki, Lim, Tiva Khan, Huang, Maoyi, Fox, Jefferson, Yin, Song, Mak, Sophea Veasna, & Kasemsap, Poonpipope. Evapotranspiration of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivated at two plantation sites in Southeast Asia. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017755
Giambelluca, Thomas W., Mudd, Ryan G., Liu, Wen, Ziegler, Alan D., Kobayashi, Nakako, Kumagai, Tomo'omi, Miyazawa, Yoshiyuki, Lim, Tiva Khan, Huang, Maoyi, Fox, Jefferson, Yin, Song, Mak, Sophea Veasna, and Kasemsap, Poonpipope. Tue .
"Evapotranspiration of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivated at two plantation sites in Southeast Asia". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017755. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1255374.
@article{osti_1255374,
title = {Evapotranspiration of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivated at two plantation sites in Southeast Asia},
author = {Giambelluca, Thomas W. and Mudd, Ryan G. and Liu, Wen and Ziegler, Alan D. and Kobayashi, Nakako and Kumagai, Tomo'omi and Miyazawa, Yoshiyuki and Lim, Tiva Khan and Huang, Maoyi and Fox, Jefferson and Yin, Song and Mak, Sophea Veasna and Kasemsap, Poonpipope},
abstractNote = {The expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivation to higher latitudes and higher elevations in southeast Asia is part of a dramatic shift in the direction of rural land cover change in the region toward more tree covered landscapes. To investigate the possible effects of increasing rubber cultivation in the region on ecosystem services including water cycling, eddy covariance towers were established to measure ecosystem fluxes within two rubber plantations, one each in Bueng Kan, northeastern Thailand, and Kampong Cham, central Cambodia. The results show that evapotranspiration (ET) at both sites is strongly related to variations in available energy and leaf area, and moderately controlled by soil moisture. Measured mean annual ET was 1128 and 1272 mm for the Thailand and Cambodia sites, respectively. After adjustment for energy closure, mean annual was estimated to be 1211 and 1459 mm yr at the Thailand and Cambodia sites, respectively. Based on these estimates and that of another site in Xishuangbanna, southwestern China, it appears that of rubber is higher than that of other tree dominated land covers in the region, including forest. While measurements by others in non rubber tropical ecosystems indicate that at high net radiation sites is at most only slightly higher than for sites with lower net radiation, mean annual rubber increases strongl with increasing net radiation across the three available rubber plantation observation sites. With the continued expansion of tree dominated land covers, including rubber cultivation, in southeast Asia, the possible association between commercially viable, fast growing tree crop species Giambelluca et al. Evapotranspiration of rubber (Havea brasiliensis) cultivated at two sites in southeast Asia and their relatively high water use raises concerns about potential effects on water and food security.},
doi = {10.1002/2015WR017755},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
number = 2,
volume = 52,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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