Importance of reporting ancillary site characteristics, and management and disturbance information at ICOS stations

• Published in: International Agrophysics Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 457 - 469
• Main Authors: Saunders, Matthew, Dengel, Sigrid, Kolari, Pasi, Moureaux, Christine, Montagnani, Leonardo, Ceschia, Eric, Altimir, Nuria, López-Ballesteros, Ana, Marańon-Jimenez, Sara, Acosta, Manuel, Klumpp, Katja, Gielen, Bert, de Beeck, Maarten Op, Hörtnagl, Lukas, Merbold, Lutz, Osborne, Bruce, Grünwald, Thomas, Arrouays, Dominique, Boukir, Hakima, Saby, Nicolas, Nicolini, Giacomo, Papale, Dario, Jones, Michael
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 01.12.2018; Sciendo/De Gruyter
• Subjects: Agriculture & agronomie; Agriculture & agronomy; carbon; characterisation; climate change; disturbance; ecosystems; Environmental Sciences; export; Global Changes; greenhouse gases; infrastructure; Life sciences; management; nitrogen; protocol; Sciences du vivant; soil heterogeneity; temporal variation; vegetation; changement climatique; perturbation; azote; caractérisation; protocole; carbone; écosystème prairial

There are many factors that influence ecosystem scale carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gas dynamics, including the inherent heterogeneity of soils and vegetation, anthropogenic management interventions, and biotic and abiotic disturbance events. It is important therefore, to document the characterist...