Wireless Sensor Networks for Ecology

Abstract

Yang Lake has been capturing the attention of scientists for more than 60 years. The subtropical lake, nearly untouched by humans because of its remote location, experiences typhoons each year and is surrounded by an ancient cypress forest-fertile ground on which limnologists, botanists, and climatologists can conduct long-term studies of its rich environments and ecosystems. A single typhoon can drop more than a meter (m) of precipitation on the 4.5-m-deep lake, doubling its volume in a single day and resulting in rapid flushing. The impacts of this extreme flushing on carbon dynamics, when compared with the dynamics in lakes with longer water retention times, can provide new insights into the effects of extreme events on carbon loading