M. Aubinet

TL;DR: An increase in future drought events could turn temperate ecosystems into carbon sources, contributing to positive carbon-climate feedbacks already anticipated in the tropics and at high latitudes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used continuous carbon and water flux measurements at 12 European monitoring sites covering various forest ecosystem types and a large climatic range in order to characterise the consequences of this drought on ecosystems functioning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the 2003 heatwave on the European biosphere's productivity and carbon balance was analyzed using the EOS-MODIS sensor data and ecosystem modelling, showing that the drop in productivity was not primarily caused by high temperatures but rather by limitation of water.

TL;DR: In this paper, a site evaluation approach combining Lagrangian Stochastic footprint modeling with a quality assessment approach for eddy-covariance data was applied to 25 forested sites of the CarboEurope-IP network.

TL;DR: In this article, a decade of eddy covariance data from six European forests stands, which encompass a wide range of functional types (broad leaf evergreen, broadleaf deciduous, needleleaf evergreen) and a wide latitudinal band (from 44° to 62°N), revealed exceptional fluxes during spring 2007.