Cited by 308Plant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsLand Use and Ecosystem Services

Measurements necessary for assessing the net ecosystem carbon budget of croplands

Open access
Smith, Pete, Lanigan, Gary, Kutsch, Werner L., Buchmann, Nina, Eugster, Werner, Aubinet, Marc, Ceschia, Eric, Béziat, Pierre +7 more·2010·Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Abstract

There are a number of methods that can be used to help assess carbon budgets at the site to continental scales. Eddy covariance (EC) networks have been developed over the last decade and have been used to make many advances in our understanding. However, eddy covariance measurements of CO₂ and water vapour exchanges quantify the fluxes only on short time scales, but do not assess the impacts of long-term processes that contribute to biogeochemical cycling in croplands, such as harvest or residue removal and other management practices, so many other supplementary measurements are required to attribute different components of the carbon flux. Such methods include isotope studies, chamber flux measurements of C and other greenhouse gases, inventories of above- and below-ground biomass as well as management in- and outputs, book-keeping modelling, process modelling, experimental manipulation and earth observation (e.g. remote sensing). In this review, we summarise the component fluxes that make up the total cropland carbon budget, describe the key fluxes and methods used to estimate them, and examine how they need to be integrated to obtain the net ecosystem carbon budget of European croplands. We describe the uncertainties and difficulties inherent at each stage and how these can be minimised.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.agee.2010.04.004

Cites

157 of 157 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

The text we found for this paper looks like another document, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The text we found for this paper looks like another document, so the self-check wasn’t run.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 159 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Smith, P., Lanigan, G., Kutsch, W. L., Buchmann, N., Eugster, W., Aubinet, M., Ceschia, E., Béziat, P., Yeluripati, J. B., Osborne, B., Moors, E. J., Brut, A., Wattenbach, M., Saunders, M., & Jones, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Aberdeen (GB)
  • Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority (IE)
  • Max Planck Society (DE)
  • ETH Zurich (CH)
  • Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (BE)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • University College Dublin (IE)
  • Wageningen University & Research (NL)
  • Trinity College Dublin (IE)
Corresponding author
Smith, Pete
Venue
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-11
Volume
139
Issue
3
Pages
302-315
ISSN
0167-8809 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2025652244
Cited by
308
References
159
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 14
FWCI
10.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (publishedVersion)
  • Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
  • Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) (submittedVersion)
  • ORBi (University of Liège) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • OpenAgrar (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Keywords
net ecosystem carbon budget, cropland, carbon flux, eddy covariance, isotope studies, biomass inventory, measurement uncertainty, greenhouse gas emissions

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review