Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions

M Helbig, T Gerken, ER Beamesderfer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
The atmospheric boundary layer mediates the exchange of energy, matter, and momentum
between the land surface and the free troposphere, integrating a range of physical …

Assessing the carbon and climate benefit of restoring degraded agricultural peat soils to managed wetlands

KS Hemes, SD Chamberlain, E Eichelmann… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Restoring degraded peat soils presents an attractive, but largely untested, climate change
mitigation approach. Drained peat soils used for agriculture can be large greenhouse gas …

Productive wetlands restored for carbon sequestration quickly become net CO2 sinks with site-level factors driving uptake variability

AC Valach, K Kasak, KS Hemes, TL Anthony… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Inundated wetlands can potentially sequester substantial amounts of soil carbon (C) over
the long-term because of slow decomposition and high primary productivity, particularly in …

A biogeochemical compromise: The high methane cost of sequestering carbon in restored wetlands

KS Hemes, SD Chamberlain… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Peatland drainage is an important driver of global soil carbon loss and carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions. Restoration of peatlands by reflooding reverses CO2 losses at the cost of …

An ecosystem-scale flux measurement strategy to assess natural climate solutions

KS Hemes, BRK Runkle, KA Novick… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Eddy covariance measurement systems provide direct observation of the exchange of
greenhouse gases between ecosystems and the atmosphere, but have only occasionally …

The effect of land cover type and structure on evapotranspiration from agricultural and wetland sites in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, California

E Eichelmann, KS Hemes, SH Knox, PY Oikawa… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
Water is a limited and valuable resource in California. A large proportion of the fresh water
for southern California is supplied by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. With recent …

Observation of irrigation‐induced climate change in the Midwest United States

MA Nocco, RA Smail, CJ Kucharik - Global change biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigated agriculture alters near‐surface temperature and humidity, which may mask global
climate change at the regional scale. However, observational studies of irrigation‐induced …

The biophysical climate mitigation potential of boreal peatlands during the growing season

M Helbig, JM Waddington, P Alekseychik… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Peatlands and forests cover large areas of the boreal biome and are critical for global
climate regulation. They also regulate regional climate through heat and water vapour …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying ecosystem services of rewetted peatlands− the MoorFutures methodologies

F Tanneberger, A Berghöfer, K Brust, J Hammerich… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
In 2011, MoorFutures® were introduced as the first standard for generating credits from
peatland rewetting. We developed methodologies to quantify ecosystem services before and …

Wildfire‐smoke aerosols lead to increased light use efficiency among agricultural and restored wetland land uses in California's Central Valley

KS Hemes, J Verfaillie… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There are few observational studies measuring the ecosystem‐scale productivity effects of
changes in incident diffuse photosynthetically active radiation (PARdiffuse), especially …