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Title: Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements

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 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [1];  [7];  [8];  [9];  [3];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States). Dept. of Plant and Soil Science
  2. Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada , BC (Mexico). Dept. of Biological Conservation
  3. Univ. of Innsbruck (Austria). Inst. of Ecology
  4. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). School of Geography and Development, B2 Earth Science
  5. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Joint Global Change Research Inst.
  6. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Environmental Science Division
  7. Univ. of Helsinki (Finland). Dept. of Forest Sciences
  8. Univ. of Eastern Finland, Kuopio (Finland). Dept. of Environmental and Biological Sciences
  9. Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ (United States)
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Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Science Foundation (NSF); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1413484
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1429200; OSTI ID: 1549124
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-124283
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-1923; PII: S0168192317303556
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830; 1137178; NNX13AQ06G; 2014-67003-22070; AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 249; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; net ecosystem exchange (NEE); soil CO2 efflux; temperature sensitivity; Q10; eddy covariance; AmeriFlux; FluxNet

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Barba, Josep, Cueva, Alejandro, Bahn, Michael, Barron-Gafford, Greg A., Bond-Lamberty, Benjamin, Hanson, Paul J., Jaimes, Aline, Kulmala, Liisa, Pumpanen, Jukka, Scott, Russell L., Wohlfahrt, Georg, and Vargas, Rodrigo. Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2017.10.028.
Barba, Josep, Cueva, Alejandro, Bahn, Michael, Barron-Gafford, Greg A., Bond-Lamberty, Benjamin, Hanson, Paul J., Jaimes, Aline, Kulmala, Liisa, Pumpanen, Jukka, Scott, Russell L., Wohlfahrt, Georg, & Vargas, Rodrigo. Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2017.10.028
Barba, Josep, Cueva, Alejandro, Bahn, Michael, Barron-Gafford, Greg A., Bond-Lamberty, Benjamin, Hanson, Paul J., Jaimes, Aline, Kulmala, Liisa, Pumpanen, Jukka, Scott, Russell L., Wohlfahrt, Georg, and Vargas, Rodrigo. Wed . "Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2017.10.028. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1413484.
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title = {Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements},
author = {Barba, Josep and Cueva, Alejandro and Bahn, Michael and Barron-Gafford, Greg A. and Bond-Lamberty, Benjamin and Hanson, Paul J. and Jaimes, Aline and Kulmala, Liisa and Pumpanen, Jukka and Scott, Russell L. and Wohlfahrt, Georg and Vargas, Rodrigo},
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journal = {Agricultural and Forest Meteorology},
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volume = 249,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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Table 1 Table 1: General information of study sites. Annual Reco and Rsoil represent the cumulative sum for all days of the year. Uncertainty in the cumulative flux is calculated by the sum of daily standard deviations and random errors (see Sup. Table 1). Growing season length represents the days of themore » year (DOY) where there is a net ecosystem carbon uptake.« less

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