It is essential to understand soil CO2 efflux in forest of different ages and logged-over areas and it carbon cycles in the tropical lowland forest of Peninsular Malaysia. The selection of the experimental plots was based on logged-over area and recovering forest of different age by comparing with natural forest, which strongly affects the estimation of soil CO2 efflux
The magnitude of soil CO2 efflux is large enough to affect an increase in the atmospheric CO2 with an implication on climate change. Half of the forests in the Peninsular Malaysia witnessed forests cleared in the late 1980s and presently the Malaysia forest had decreased by 1.9 million hectare by 2025 and moving at a fast rate.
The Malaysian forest logging and land conversion scenario has resulted in high average temperature increases by 1.1°C for the last two decades and is expected to warm further at the rate of 0.9°C.
This changing air temperature in Malaysia’s climate will severely test the viability of many current agricultural practices,
its regional change in rainfall pattern, increase in the intensity and frequency of severe storms, flooding, landslides, and urban heat as gas been observed in several towns and cities in Malaysia.
To address the challenges
Afforestation project using indigenous trees species in the peninsular fringes for CO2 absorption
Agroforestry (agro-farming management )