Exposed Sunda Shelf During the Glacial Times: An Important Component of the Terrestrial Carbon Reservoir?

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2017.11.1157

Exposed Sunda Shelf During the Glacial Times: An Important Component of the Terrestrial Carbon Reservoir?

Guodong Jia

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State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Received date: 2017-09-06

Revised date: 2017-10-23

Online published: 2018-01-10

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Abstract

The glacial-interglacial carbon cycle is a complex scientific issue of the earth system. Although many progresses have been made, it is still far from being solved. Among others, an important limiting factor is the great uncertainty in the carbon stock in the terrestrial carbon reservoir. The present Sunda Islands are one of the three tropical forest areas with most abundant terrestrial carbon biomass and contribute greatly to the global terrestrial carbon reservoir. During the glacial low stands, the adjacent Sunda Shelf was exposed and led to a doubled land area. The scenario of terrestrial vegetation, which is not well understood, on the exposed land is probably a key factor to the global carbon cycle. Thus, a comprehensive paleoclimate and paleoecology study for the area is appealed, which may provide key data to quantitative analysis and modelling of the global glacial-interglacial carbon cycles.

Key words： Sunda shelf; Carbon cycle; Glacial cycle; Biomass

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Guodong Jia . Exposed Sunda Shelf During the Glacial Times: An Important Component of the Terrestrial Carbon Reservoir?[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2017 , 32(11) : 1157 -1162 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2017.11.1157

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