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Respiration group

Since the calibration of flux measurements between forest stand and boundary layer of the atmosphere and the evaluation of respiration processes has been required, an automatic system for continuous measurement of CO2 effluxes from soil has been constructed. At first, the analysis of available measuring methods has been done. A closed gasometrical system was the most suitable for the construction of automatic CO2 flux measurement system - SAMTOC (Czech acronym). During the wintertime 2000/2001 the system was tested from the point of view of its functionality, at the beginning of the vegetation season 2001 was installed at the research site Bílý Kříž on Beskydy Mts. and its test operation started. The results of the operation test in 2001 showed the suitability of the suggested solution for soil respiration detection and possibilities of its modelling according to the actual soil temperatures. From the 2002, the SAMTOC system was extend in measurement of woody tissue (stem).



Box with control unit of SAMTOC Daily courses of soil respiration and soil temperature in one chamber from 7.5. to 24.5.2002
Spatial location of soil and stem respiration chambers Daily courses of soil respiration in eight positions measured by SAMTOC.
Stem respiration chamber The average daily soil CO2 flux per month in the vegetation season 2002
Soil respiration chamber Daily courses of stem respiration in eight sampled trees measured by SAMTOC.


SAMTOC scheme
a – PC with software, b – IRGA, c – sampling change-over valve, d – set of eight soil chambers, e – set of eight woody-tissue chambers, f – set of eight sensors for soil temperature measurement g– set of eight sensors for woody-tissue temperature measurement, h – sensors for air temperature measurement, i– pump
PC monitor with control program - Parameter Setting regime Daily courses of stem respiration (CO2 efflux) and stem temperature in one chamber from 24.6. to 30.6.2002.
PC monitor with control program at the measuring time The relationship between stem respiration and stem temperature.


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