TY - JOUR
T1 - Progress and opportunities for monitoring greenhouse gases fluxes in Mexican ecosystems
T2 - The MexFlux network
AU - Vargas, R.
AU - Yépez, E. A.
AU - Andrade, J. L.
AU - Ángeles, G.
AU - Arredondo, T.
AU - Castellanos, A. E.
AU - Delgado-Balbuena, J.
AU - Garatuza-Payán, J.
AU - González Del Castillo, E.
AU - Oechel, W.
AU - Rodríguez, J. C.
AU - Sánchez-Azofeifa, A.
AU - Velasco, E.
AU - Vivoni, Enrique
AU - Watts, C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge funding from Conacyt (EcoRed-Conacyt) for meetings that have facilitated discussions between researchers and students. RV is grateful for funding from Conacyt (Ciencia Básica-152671). TA and CW thanks SEP-Conacyt. ASA and EGC thank the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Tropi-Dry, supported by the National Science Foundation. EGC also acknowledges funding from a Conacyt-UC Mexus scholarship. CW gratefully acknowledges funding from Conacyt Ciencia Básica. EV acknowledges support from INE, MCE2, SMA-GDF and Singapore National Research Foundation trough SMART. GA and JLA acknowledge support from USAID and USFS.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Understanding ecosystem processes from a functional point of view is essential to study relationships among climate variability, biogeochemical cycles, and surface-atmosphere interactions. Increasingly during the last decades, the eddy covariance (EC) method has been applied in terrestrial, marine and urban ecosystems to quantify fluxes of greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2, H2O) and energy (e.g., sensible and latent heat). Networks of EC systems have been established in different regions and have provided scientific information that has been used for designing environmental and adaptation policies. In this context, this article outlines the conceptual and technical framework for the establishment of an EC regional network (i.e., MexFlux) to measure the surface-atmosphere exchange of heat and greenhouse gases in Mexico. The goal of the network is to improve our understanding of how climate variability and environmental change influence the dynamics of Mexican ecosystems. First, we discuss the relevance of CO2 and water vapor exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Second, we briefly describe the EC basis and present examples of measurements in terrestrial and urban ecosystems of Mexico. Finally, we describe the conceptual and operational goals at short-, medium-, and long-term scales for continuity of the MexFlux network.
AB - Understanding ecosystem processes from a functional point of view is essential to study relationships among climate variability, biogeochemical cycles, and surface-atmosphere interactions. Increasingly during the last decades, the eddy covariance (EC) method has been applied in terrestrial, marine and urban ecosystems to quantify fluxes of greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2, H2O) and energy (e.g., sensible and latent heat). Networks of EC systems have been established in different regions and have provided scientific information that has been used for designing environmental and adaptation policies. In this context, this article outlines the conceptual and technical framework for the establishment of an EC regional network (i.e., MexFlux) to measure the surface-atmosphere exchange of heat and greenhouse gases in Mexico. The goal of the network is to improve our understanding of how climate variability and environmental change influence the dynamics of Mexican ecosystems. First, we discuss the relevance of CO2 and water vapor exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Second, we briefly describe the EC basis and present examples of measurements in terrestrial and urban ecosystems of Mexico. Finally, we describe the conceptual and operational goals at short-, medium-, and long-term scales for continuity of the MexFlux network.
KW - Eddy covariance
KW - Environmental networks
KW - FLUXNET
KW - Greenhouse gases
KW - Long-term measurements
KW - Surface-air exchange
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U2 - 10.1016/s0187-6236(13)71079-8
DO - 10.1016/s0187-6236(13)71079-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84879987403
SN - 0187-6236
VL - 26
SP - 325
EP - 336
JO - Atmosfera
JF - Atmosfera
IS - 3
ER -