Estimating immediate post-fire carbon fluxes using the eddy-covariance technique

Oliveira, Bruna R. F.; Schaller, Carsten; Keizer, J. Jacob; Foken, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-285-2021

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-285-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-285-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

Research article

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14 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 14 Jan 2021

Estimating immediate post-fire carbon fluxes using the eddy-covariance technique

Bruna R. F. Oliveira, Carsten Schaller, J. Jacob Keizer, and Thomas Foken

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-285-2021-supplement

Data sets

Daily Carbon Dioxide fluxes measured by an eddy-covariance station in a recently burnt Mediterranean pine stand in Central Portugal B. R. F. Oliveira, J. J. Keizer, and T. Foken https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921281

Short summary

Forest fires have a significant impact on carbon dioxide emissions. The present study from a pine forest in Portugal is one of the few where measurements of CO₂ fluxes were started immediately (1.5 months) after the forest fire. Carbon dioxide emissions were linked to soil humidity. Therefore, they started after the beginning of the rainfall in autumn. Due to the beginning of vegetation, the site was already a carbon dioxide sink the following year.