The paradox of assessing greenhouse gases from soils for nature-based solutions

Vargas, Rodrigo; Le, Van Huong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-15-2023

Articles | Volume 20, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-15-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-15-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 1

Research article

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03 Jan 2023

Research article |

| 03 Jan 2023

The paradox of assessing greenhouse gases from soils for nature-based solutions

Rodrigo Vargas and Van Huong Le

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-15-2023-supplement

Data sets

Soil respiration dataset from a temperate forest (St Jones Reserve) Sandra Petrakis, Josep Barba, and Rodrigo Vargas https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19536004.v1

Model code and software

A workflow to apply temporal univariate Latin Hypercube (tuLH) Van Huong Le and Rodrigo Vargas https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7323913

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Quantifying the role of soils in nature-based solutions requires accurate estimates of soil greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes. We suggest that multiple GHG fluxes should not be simultaneously measured at a few fixed time intervals, but an optimized sampling approach can reduce bias and uncertainty. Our results have implications for assessing GHG fluxes from soils and a better understanding of the role of soils in nature-based solutions.