Cross-evaluation of measurements of peatland methane emissions on microform and 
ecosystem scales using high-resolution landcover classification and source 
weight modelling

Forbrich, Inke; Kutzbach, Lars; Wille, Christian; Becker, Thomas; Wu, Jiabing; Wilmking, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.02.006

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Cross-evaluation of measurements of peatland methane emissions on microform and ecosystem scales using high-resolution landcover classification and source weight modelling

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Becker, Thomas
Laser Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Max Planck Society;
Laser Physics, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Max Planck Society;

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Forbrich, I., Kutzbach, L., Wille, C., Becker, T., Wu, J., & Wilmking, M. (2011). Cross-evaluation of measurements of peatland methane emissions on microform and ecosystem scales using high-resolution landcover classification and source weight modelling. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151(7), 864-874. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.02.006.

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The methane exchange in an oligotrophic mire complex was measured on the ecosystem and microform scale with the eddy covariance (EC) and the closed chamber technique, respectively. Information about the distribution of three distinct microform types in the area of interest and in each 30 min EC flux source area was derived from a high-resolution (1 m(2)) landcover map in combination with an analytical source weight model (Kormann and Meixner, 2001). The mean weighted coverage of flark, lawn and hummock microforms in the EC source area (0.3% : 57% :43%) closely mirrors the overall distribution in the area of interest (0.5% : 50.1%: 49.4%), despite great differences in microform coverage between individual 30 min EC source areas. The measured ecosystem flux was fitted to the sum of three microform flux models based on environmental variables and weighted by their fractional coverage in the EC source area. This method resulted in a better representation of the ecosystem flux compared to an approach based on only one flux model for the whole ecosystem (R-2 = 0.87, RMSE = 0.44 vs. R-2 = 0.74, RMSE = 0.61, n = 5181) and thus constitutes a successful down-scaling of measured ecosystem scale flux to the microform scale. A comparison of down-scaled and measured microform fluxes reveals a good agreement for lawn microforms and systematic differences for flark and hummock microforms. Reasons for the differences are thought to be the limited resolution of the landcover classification and the systematic underestimation of hummock fluxes by the closed chamber technique. As a result, hummock fluxes derived by down-scaling of EC fluxes are considered to be more dependable than closed chamber fluxes. The seasonal ecosystem methane budget from gap-filled EC measurements was 9.4 +/- 0.2 g CH4 m(-2); the budget derived from up-scaled microform measurements was 8.0 +/- 0.8 g CH4 m(-2). The lower value of the latter budget is attributed to the underestimation of flark and hummock fluxes by closed chamber measurements and to the microform gap-filling procedure. Generally, estimates from up-scaled microform measurements are found to be less certain than estimates from EC measurements. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.