Energy and Matter Fluxes of a Spruce Forest Ecosystem

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Foken, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 229
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Geobiology.; Ecosystems.; Forestry.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Life Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

This book focuses on fluxes of energy, carbon dioxide and matter in and above a Central European spruce forest. The transition from a forest affected by acid rain into a heterogeneous forest occurred as a result of wind throw, bark beetles and climate change. Scientific results obtained over the las...

Table of Contents:

• History of the Waldstein-Weidenbrunnen FLUXNET site and scientific aims of the research
• Description of the measuring site
• Climate and trace gas concentrations
• Long-term carbon and water vapour fluxes
• Sap flow measurements.-Fluxes in the ground
• Coherent structures and flux coupling
• Trace gas concentrations and fluxes near the ground
• Trace gas fluxes
• Isotope fluxes
• Development of flux data quality tools
• Interaction Forest–Clearing
• Forest climate in vertical and horizontal scales
• Catchment evaporation and runoff
• One dimensional modelling of the energy and matter exchange
• Three dimensional modelling of the energy and matter exchange
• Comparison of meso-scale modeled fluxes and measurements
• What can we learn for a better understanding of the turbulent exchange processes at FLUXNET sites.