About project
Problem:
- Powerful greenhouse gas – agent of global warming
- Most dangerous stratospheric O3 depleting agent
Knowledge gap:
- N2O budget: highly variable and scarcely studied
- Canopy effect largely unknown
- Tropical fluxes insufficiently studied
Major novelties of N2O flux:
- Synchronous automated measurement of N2O fluxes in soil, plants & whole ecosystem
- Eddy covariance N2O above forest canopy in tropics
- Integrated microbiome and isotope analysis of N2O fluxes
