Vegetation Matters: Correcting Chamber Carbon Flux Measurements Using Plant Volumes

The paper demonstrates that accounting for the volume of peatland dwarf shrub vegetation significantly alters carbon flux calculations, with the effect increasing as plants occupy more of the chamber volume. It also establishes that plant volumes can be accurately estimated in the field non-destructively following an initial destructive laboratory assessment of each species.

• Including plant volumes in chamber flux calculations significantly changes the resulting flux measurements, and this impact increases as the proportion of the chamber volume occupied by plants grows.
• Plant volumes can be accurately measured in the field without destroying the plants, provided there is an initial destructive laboratory assessment for each species and some practice in volume estimation.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2018). Vegetation Matters: Correcting Chamber Carbon Flux Measurements Using Plant Volumes. https://www.sei.org/publications/vegetation-matters-correcting-chamber-carbon-flux-measurements-using-plant-volumes/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Vegetation Matters: Correcting Chamber Carbon Flux Measurements Using Plant Volumes. 2018. https://www.sei.org/publications/vegetation-matters-correcting-chamber-carbon-flux-measurements-using-plant-volumes/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2018vegetation, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Vegetation Matters: Correcting Chamber Carbon Flux Measurements Using Plant Volumes}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2018}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/vegetation-matters-correcting-chamber-carbon-flux-measurements-using-plant-volumes/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }