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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-4379-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
03 Jul 2026
Research article |
| 03 Jul 2026
| 03 Jul 2026
A cross-site comparison of ecosystem- and plot-scale methane fluxes across multiple timescales
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Ankur R. Desai
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Masahito Ueyama
Graduate School of Agriculture, Osaka Metropolitan University, Sakai, 599-8531, Japan
Rodrigo Vargas
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Eric J. Ward
University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Zhen Zhang
National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (TPDC), State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resource (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
Gil Bohrer
Department of Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Kyle Delwiche
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Etienne Fluet-Chouinard
Earth System Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Järvi Järveoja
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Sara H. Knox
Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Lulie Melling
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Asia Headquarters, Sunway University, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
Mats B. Nilsson
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Matthias Peichl
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Angela Che Ing Tang
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
School of Forest Sciences, Joensuu campus, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Jinsong Wang
Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
Sheel Bansal
U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND, USA
Sarah Feron
University of Groningen, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Manuel Helbig
GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Aino Korrensalo
Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Natural Resources Institute Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Ken W. Krauss
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), Chauvin, LA 70344, USA
Gavin McNicol
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Shuli Niu
Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
Zutao Ouyang
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Kathleen Savage
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, USA
Oliver Sonnentag
Université de Montréal, Département de géographie, Montréal, QC, Canada
Robert Jackson
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, USA
Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, USA
Avni Malhotra
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA, USA
Data sets
Cross-site comparison of ecosystem- and plot-scale methane fluxes from wetlands and uplands (Version v1) T. Määttä et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17312404
Model code and software
tiia-maa/Cross-site-comparison-of-ecosystem-and-plot-scale-methane-fluxes-across-multiple-sites: Cross site comparison of ecosystem and plot scale methane fluxes across multiple timescales v1 (v) Tiia Määttä https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20558238
Short summary
We compared ecosystem- and plot-scale methane fluxes across wetland and upland sites. Ecosystem-scale fluxes were higher than at plot scale, but differences were small. Vapor pressure deficit, atmospheric pressure, turbulence, and wind direction affected the differences. Both scales could be combined for improved methane flux estimates at coarser temporal scales.
We compared ecosystem- and plot-scale methane fluxes across wetland and upland sites....
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