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The CO2 flux network, AmeriFlux, aims to quantify and understand the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. The network has grown to over 100 sites, with about 25 cluster sites in different disturbance classes or different vegetation types within a climate zone. This chapter summarizes the network objectives, recent findings of AmeriFlux research, and future directions necessary to meet global climate change research goals. The information gained from flux sites, multi-factor experiments on processes, and multi-observation networks can help to improve and parameterize models that are applied to quantify and understand carbon budgets across regions and continents.
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Law, B. (2005). Carbon dynamics in response to climate and disturbance: Recent progress from multi-scale measurements and modeling in AmeriFlux. In: Omasa, K., Nouchi, I., De Kok, L.J. (eds) Plant Responses to Air Pollution and Global Change. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-31014-2_23
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