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Identifying landscape hot and cold spots of soil greenhouse gas fluxes by combining field measurements and remote sensing data
Elizabeth Gachibu Wangari
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Ricky Mwangada Mwanake
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Tobias Houska
Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition (iFZ), Justus Liebig University Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
David Kraus
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Gretchen Maria Gettel
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft, the Netherlands
Department of Ecoscience, Lake Ecology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Ralf Kiese
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Lutz Breuer
Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition (iFZ), Justus Liebig University Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig University Gießen, Senckenbergstraße 3, 35390 Gießen, Germany
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Pioneer Center Land-CRAFT, Department of Agroecology, University of Aarhus, C. F. Møllers Allé 4, Building 1120, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
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Agricultural landscapes act as sinks or sources of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) CO2, CH4, or N2O. Various physicochemical and biological processes control the fluxes of these GHGs between ecosystems and the atmosphere. Therefore, fluxes depend on environmental conditions such as soil moisture, soil temperature, or soil parameters, which result in large spatial and temporal variations of GHG fluxes. Here, we describe an example of how this variation may be studied and analyzed.
Agricultural landscapes act as sinks or sources of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) CO2, CH4, or N2O....
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