One of the LIFE OrgBalt project key assignments is elaborating and evaluating the soil greenhouse gas (GHG) balance, especially for carbon dioxide (CO2), but for methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), too.

However, determining those in forests and other ecosystems on organic soils is challenging from technological and capacity perspectives: the annual soil CO2 balance is formed using summarized CO2 flux data over the year in monitoring and coherent data on mass-based Carbon (C) stock changes from above and below the ground. The article describes the baseline where the project partners started working on these issues. It also briefly envisages methodology, requirements for the measurements of different parameters, measuring and sampling that were done for two years, as well as calculations done within the project.

Please read the article “Measurements of soil GHG fluxes within the LIFE OrgBalt project” HERE >>>