The ‘amerifluxr’ [pronounced: uh-merr-ee-fluhks-arrr] — an R package that allows querying, downloading, and handling AmeriFlux data and metadata — is now released through the CRAN repository. The package was developed… More
Feature photo: Jeff Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison Communications The English word “scale” has a surprisingly broad range of definitions. Whether you think of the scales of a fish, the scale… More
The encroachment of woody species such as mangrove invading coastal marshes is expected to change the carbon storage in the soils and biomass as well as exchanges with the atmosphere.
We all know the importance of soil as a CO2 source to the atmosphere, even in high latitude/altitude ecosystems with persistent snow cover. Before the days of automated soil respiration… More
Nestled between the mountains of the Olympic Peninsula, hidden behind the raging everlasting Tacoma traffic jam and interrupted-service WA-State ferries, is the Viking town of Poulsbo, WA. And in the… More
1. Contrasting long-term temperature trends reveal minor changes in projected potential evapotranspiration in the US Midwest By Bruno Basso et al. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21763-7) “From historical summer climate trends of the… More
To Be or Not to Be…that is the Question One of the challenging questions facing bio-geoscientists is whether the hydrological cycle is changing in a warming world with more CO2…. More
Dear AmeriFlux community, We are launching a “mini-Review” series as part of the AmeriFlux Year of Water. In this short monthly review, we list and provide a brief introduction of… More
The Rosemount AmeriFlux sites are located at the University of Minnesota, Rosemount Research and Outreach Center (RROC) – a 3,500 acre research farm (https://rroc.cfans.umn.edu/). Our eddy covariance sites were established… More
Greenhouse gas flux responses to wetland drying and vegetation succession in the Kenai Lowlands, southcentral Alaska