There is growing international interest in better managing soils to increase soil organic
carbon (SOC) content to contribute to climate change mitigation, to enhance resilience to …

Abstract The Integrated Carbon Observation System Research Infrastructure aims to provide
long-term, continuous observations of sources and sinks of greenhouse gases such as …

Since 1750, land-use change and fossil fuel combustion has led to a 46% increase in the
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations, causing global warming with substantial …

We currently face both an extinction and a biome crisis embedded in a changing climate.
Many biodiverse ecosystems are being lost at far higher rates than they are being protected …

AmeriFlux is a network of research sites that measure carbon, water, and energy fluxes
between ecosystems and the atmosphere using the eddy covariance technique to study a …

Natural wetlands constitute the largest and most uncertain source of methane (CH4) to the
atmosphere and a large fraction of them are found in the northern latitudes. These emissions …

Pedometrics, the application of mathematical and statistical methods to the study of the
distribution and genesis of soils, has broadened its scope over the past two decades. The …

Eddy covariance sites are ideally suited for the study of extreme events on ecosystems as
they allow the exchange of trace gases and energy fluxes between ecosystems and the …

Climate change is expected to cause major changes in forest ecosystems during the 21 st
century and beyond. To assess forest impacts from climate change, the existing empirical …

Forests play a major role in the global carbon cycle, and droughts have been shown to
explain much of the interannual variability in the terrestrial carbon sink capacity. The …