Measurements necessary for assessing the net ecosystem carbon budget of croplands

• Published in: Agriculture, ecosystems & environment Vol. 139; no. 3; pp. 302 - 315
• Main Authors: Smith, Pete, Lanigan, Gary, Kutsch, Werner L., Buchmann, Nina, Eugster, Werner, Aubinet, Marc, Ceschia, Eric, Béziat, Pierre, Yeluripati, Jagadeesh B., Osborne, Bruce, Moors, Eddy J., Brut, Aurore, Wattenbach, Martin, Saunders, Matt, Jones, Mike
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.11.2010; Amsterdam; New York: Elsevier; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: aerial parts; agricultural land; Agriculture; Agriculture & agronomie; Agriculture & agronomy; agroecosystems; biogeochemical cycles; Budgeting; Carbon; carbon budget; carbon dioxide; Covariance; crop management; crop residues; Cropland; Ecosystems; Eddies; Eddy covariance; eddy covariance method; Environmental sciences & ecology; estimation; Europe; Fluxes; gas exchange; Greenhouse gas; harvesting; input output analysis; isotope labeling; land management; Life sciences; literature reviews; Management; Mathematical models; Methods; Modelling; net ecosystem exchange; remote sensing; Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; simulation models; soil biology; stable isotopes; temporal variation; water vapor; Europe; Cropland; Agriculture; Eddy covariance; Carbon; Greenhouse gas; Methods

There are a number of methods that can be used to help assess carbon budgets at the site to continental scales. Eddy covariance (EC) networks have been developed over the last decade and have been used to make many advances in our understanding. However, eddy covariance measurements of CO 2 and wate...