1. Ancillary vegetation measurements at ICOS ecosystem stations
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Lutz Merbold, Manuel Acosta, Matthias Peichl, Bruce Osborne, Christine Moureaux, Pasi Kolari, Tanguy Manise, Leonardo Montagnani, Nina Buchmann, Marian Pavelka, Christine Metzger, Annalea Lohila, Mats Nilsson, Caroline Vincke, Dario Papale, Georg Wohlfahrt, Stefan Fleck, Eric Ceschia, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Tiphaine Tallec, Bert Gielen, Oliver Sonnentag, Denis Loustau, Radek Pokorny, Katja Klumpp, Sara Marañón-Jiménez, Nuria Altimir, Matthew Saunders, A. Cescatti, Kamel Soudani, Guillaume Simioni, Lukas Hörtnagl, Giorgio Matteucci, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp (UA), Global Change Research Institute CAS, Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Department of Physics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère (CESBIO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Thuenen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Partenaires INRAE, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur l'Ecosystème Prairial - UMR (UREP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère (UMR ISPA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine (Bordeaux Sciences Agro), Department of Applied Physics, Universidad de Huelva, Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Université de Liège, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Mazingira Centre, International Livestock Research Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Free University of Bolzano, Forest Services, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), University College Dublin (UCD), Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems, Tuscia University, School of Natural Sciences (Department of Botany), Trinity College Dublin, Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (URFM), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Paris Saclay (COmUE), Department of Geography, Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Earth and Life Institute [Louvain-La-Neuve] (ELI), Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, UCL - SST/ELI - Earth and Life Institute, Global Change Research Centre (CzechGlobe), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Università degli studi della Tuscia [Viterbo], Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck, and Department of Forest Sciences
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Peat ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,GRASSLAND ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Green Area Index ,Eddy covariance ,Soil Science ,above-ground biomass ,ICOS ,litter biomass ,protocol ,01 natural sciences ,114 Physical sciences ,Protocol ,Aboveground biomass ,Litter biomass ,CO2 EXCHANGE ,Sampling design ,ddc:550 ,PEATLAND ,Ecosystem ,SPATIAL VARIATION ,aboveground biomass ,Biology ,1172 Environmental sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Water Science and Technology ,Hydrology ,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes ,Biomass (ecology) ,4112 Forestry ,FEN ,CARBON-DIOXIDE EXCHANGE ,LEAF-AREA INDEX ,SEASONAL DYNAMICS ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Vegetation ,15. Life on land ,Earth sciences ,13. Climate action ,Greenhouse gas ,BALANCE ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,040103 agronomy & agriculture ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,RADIATION ,Spatial variability ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Abstract
The Integrated Carbon Observation System is a Pan-European distributed research infrastructure that has as its main goal to monitor the greenhouse gas balance of Europe. The ecosystem component of Integrated Carbon Observation System consists of a multitude of stations where the net greenhouse gas exchange is monitored continuously by eddy covariance measurements while, in addition many other measurements are carried out that are a key to an understanding of the greenhouse gas balance. Amongst them are the continuous meteorological measurements and a set of non-continuous measurements related to vegetation. The latter include Green Area Index, aboveground biomass and litter biomass. The standardized methodology that is used at the Integrated Carbon Observation System ecosystem stations to monitor these vegetation related variables differs between the ecosystem types that are represented within the network, whereby in this paper we focus on forests, grasslands, croplands and mires. For each of the variables and ecosystems a spatial and temporal sampling design was developed so that the variables can be monitored in a consistent way within the ICOS network. The standardisation of the methodology to collect Green Area Index, above ground biomass and litter biomass and the methods to evaluate the quality of the collected data ensures that all stations within the ICOS ecosystem network produce data sets with small and similar errors, which allows for inter-comparison comparisons across the Integrated Carbon Observation System ecosystem network.
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- 2018
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