Andrew A. Turnipseed

TL;DR: A six-year record of net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange in a subalpine forest is used to show that years with a reduced winter snowpack are accompanied by significantly lower rates of soil respiration and suggest that a warmer climate may change soil carbon sequestration rates in forest ecosystems owing to changes in the depth of the insulating snow cover.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE) dynamics in a high-elevation, subalpine forest in Colorado, USA, over a two-year period.

TL;DR: NEEsnow-melt was highest in those years when the snow melt occurred later in the spring, leading us to conclude that in this ecosystem, years with earlier springs are characterized by lower rates of NEEannual, a conclusion that contrasts with those from past studies in deciduous forest ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of local topography and canopy structure on turbulent flux measurements at a site located in mountainous terrain within a subalpine, coniferous forest were investigated.