• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Leveraging research infrastructure co-location to evaluate constraints on terrestrial carbon cycling in northern European forests
  • Beteiligte: Futter, Martyn N.; Dirnböck, Thomas; Forsius, Martin; Bäck, Jaana K.; Cools, Nathalie; Diaz-Pines, Eugenio; Dick, Jan; Gaube, Veronika; Gillespie, Lauren M.; Högbom, Lars; Laudon, Hjalmar; Mirtl, Michael; Nikolaidis, Nikolaos; Poppe Terán, Christian; Skiba, Ute; Vereecken, Harry; Villwock, Holger; Weldon, James; Wohner, Christoph; Alam, Syed Ashraful
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Ambio
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01930-4
  • ISSN: 0044-7447; 1654-7209
  • Schlagwörter: Ecology ; Environmental Chemistry ; Geography, Planning and Development ; General Medicine
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Integrated long-term, in-situ observations are needed to document ongoing environmental change, to “ground-truth” remote sensing and model outputs and to predict future Earth system behaviour. The scientific and societal value of in-situ observations increases with site representativeness, temporal duration, number of parameters measured and comparability within and across sites. Research Infrastructures (RIs) can support harmonised, cross-site data collection, curation and publication. Integrating RI networks through site co-location and standardised observation methods can help answers three questions about the terrestrial carbon sink: (i) What are present and future carbon sequestration rates in northern European forests? (ii) How are these rates controlled? (iii) Why do the observed patterns exist? Here, we present a conceptual model for RI co-location and highlight potential insights into the terrestrial carbon sink achievable when long-term in-situ Earth observation sites participate in multiple RI networks (e.g., ICOS and eLTER). Finally, we offer recommendations to promote RI co-location.</jats:p>