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A comparison of gap-filling methods for a long-term eddy covariance dataset from a Northern Old-growth Black Spruce forest

Boreal old-growth forests are key determinants in the global carbon cycle. It is unknown how the role of persistent old-growth forests will be in the carbon cycle in the face of predicted climatic changes. Eddy-covariance measurements are commonly used to quantify carbon exchange between ecosystems, such as forests, and the atmosphere. Error due to gap-fill method is of particular interest in these datasets. Here we filled a 15-year eddy covariance dataset from the Northern Old-Growth Boreal Black Spruce (Picea mariana) site located near Thompson, in central Manitoba, Canada using four different gap-fill methods. Our objectives were to determine if choice of gap-fill method affected annual NEP and if these errors compounded to even greater differences over the 15-year study period. Most significant differences in NEP among methods occurred from September to December, but variations during the growing season were responsible for most of the annual differences. / October 2016

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/31600
Date24 August 2016
CreatorsSoloway, Ashley
ContributorsAmiro, Brian (Soil Science), Tenuta, Mario (Soil Science) Papakyriakou, Tim (Department of Environment and Geography)
Source SetsUniversity of Manitoba Canada
Detected LanguageEnglish

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