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Carbon Dioxide, Heat, and Water Vapor Fluxes between a Spruce Forest and the Atmosphere in Northeastern European Russia

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This article presents the measurement results of CO2 and heat fluxes using the eddy covariance system between an old-age spruce forest and the atmosphere. It further examines daily and seasonal courses of CO2 net exchange, ecosystem respiration, and gross photosynthesis. A close relationship has been established between the average daily CO2 net exchange and net radiation over the course of a year. The efficiency of water use relative to organic matter production in the spruce forest has been calculated.

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This work was supported as part of a Complex Program for Basic Research of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, for 2018–2020, subprogram Live Nature and Climate, project no. 18-4-4-17.

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Zagirova, S.V., Mikhaylov, O.A. & Elsakov, V.V. Carbon Dioxide, Heat, and Water Vapor Fluxes between a Spruce Forest and the Atmosphere in Northeastern European Russia. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 47, 306–317 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359020010185

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