Ideas and perspectives: patterns of soil CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes along an altitudinal gradient – a pilot study from an Ecuadorian neotropical montane forest

Lamprea Pineda, Paula Alejandra; Bauters, Marijn; Verbeeck, Hans; Baez, Selene; Barthel, Matti; Bodé, Samuel; Boeckx, Pascal

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-413-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-413-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-413-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

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19 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 19 Jan 2021

Ideas and perspectives: patterns of soil CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O fluxes along an altitudinal gradient – a pilot study from an Ecuadorian neotropical montane forest

Paula Alejandra Lamprea Pineda, Marijn Bauters, Hans Verbeeck, Selene Baez, Matti Barthel, Samuel Bodé, and Pascal Boeckx

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Tropical forest soils are an important source and sink of greenhouse gases (GHGs) with tropical montane forests having been poorly studied. In this pilot study, we explored soil fluxes of CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O in an Ecuadorian neotropical montane forest, where a net consumption of N₂O at higher altitudes was observed. Our results highlight the importance of short-term variations in N₂O and provide arguments and insights for future, more detailed studies on GHG fluxes from montane forest soils.