Authors
Sebastiaan Luyssaert, I Inglima, Martin Jung, AD Richardson, M Reichstein, D Papale, SL Piao, E‐D SCHULZE, L Wingate, G Matteucci, LEOC Aragao, Marc Aubinet, C Beer, C Bernhofer, KG Black, D Bonal, J‐M BONNEFOND, J Chambers, P Ciais, B Cook, KJ Davis, AJ Dolman, B Gielen, M Goulden, J Grace, A Granier, A Grelle, T Griffis, T Grünwald, G Guidolotti, PJ Hanson, R Harding, DY Hollinger, LR Hutyra, P Kolari, B Kruijt, W Kutsch, Fredrik Lagergren, T Laurila, BE Law, G Le Maire, Anders Lindroth, D Loustau, Y Malhi, J Mateus, M Migliavacca, L Misson, L Montagnani, J Moncrieff, E Moors, JW Munger, E Nikinmaa, SV Ollinger, G Pita, Corinna Rebmann, O Roupsard, N Saigusa, MJ Sanz, G Seufert, C Sierra, M‐L SMITH, J Tang, R Valentini, T Vesala, IA Janssens
Publication date
2007/12/1
Journal
Global Change Biology
Volume
13
Issue
12
Pages
2509-2537
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
Terrestrial ecosystems sequester 2.1 Pg of atmospheric carbon annually. A large amount of the terrestrial sink is realized by forests. However, considerable uncertainties remain regarding the fate of this carbon over both short and long timescales. Relevant data to address these uncertainties are being collected at many sites around the world, but syntheses of these data are still sparse. To facilitate future synthesis activities, we have assembled a comprehensive global database for forest ecosystems, which includes carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (e.g. leaf area index, age), as well as ancillary site information such as management regime, climate, and soil characteristics. This publicly available database can be used to quantify global, regional or biome‐specific carbon budgets; to re‐examine established relationships; to test emerging hypotheses about ecosystem functioning [e.g. a …
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