Laegeren

Site description

Associated Persons
Thomas Baur
Werner Eugster
Matthias Häni
Sebastian Zielis

Managed mixed deciduous mountain forest located on the steep Lägeren mountain (NW of Zurich, Swiss Plateau), 800 m asl. The forest is highly diverse, dominated by beech and fir. The site is part of the international CarboEurope IP network and the NABEL (Swiss air quality network) and a long-term forest ecosystem research site (LWF) of the WSL (Institut f.Wald Schnee & Landschaft). Eddy covariance flux measurements were started in April 2004 (tower coordinates: 47°28'42.0" N and 8°21'51.8" E at 682 m asl).

Related projects:
CarboEurope
CostAction38
FoResp
ISOCYCLE
SNSFProDoc

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Publications

2012

Niu S, Luo Y, Fei S, Yuan W, Zhang Z, Schimel D, Amiro B, Ammann C, Altaf Arain M, Arneth A, Aubinet M, Barr A, Beringer J, Bernhofer C, Black AT, Buchmann N, Cescatti A, Chen J, Kenneth P, Davis J, Dellwik E, Desai AR, Dolman H, Drake BK, Francois L, Gianelle D, Goldstein A, Gu L, Helfter C, Hirano T, Hollinger DY, Janssens I, Jones M, Kiely G, Kolb TE, Kutsch WL, Lafleur P, Law BE, Litvak M, Loustau D, Marek M, Matteucci G, Martin TA, Montagnani L, Moors E, Munger JW, Noormets A, Oechel W, Olejnik J, Papale D, Paw U KT, Pilegaard K, Rambal S, Raschi A, Richardson AD, Saleska S, Scott R, Seufert G, Spano D, Stoy P, Sutton MA, Vesala T, Wofsy S, Wohlfahrt G, Yakir D, Yang B (2012) Thermal Optimality of Net Ecosystem Exchange of Carbon Dioxide. New Phytologist 194: 775–783

Wortman E, Tomaszewski T, Waldner P, Schleppi P, Thimonier A, Eugster W, Buchmann N, Sievering H (2012) Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and canopy retention influences on photosynthetic performance at two high nitrogen deposition Swiss forests. Tellus B 64, 17216

2011

Etzold S, Ruehr NK, Zweifel R, Dobbertin M, Zingg A, Pluess P, Häsler R, Eugster W, Buchmann N (2011) The carbon balance of two contrasting mountain forest ecosystems in Switzerland: similar annual trends, but seasonal differences. Ecosystems doi: 10.1007/s10021-011-9481-3

2010

Etzold S, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2010) Contribution of advection to the carbon budget measured by eddy covariance at a steep mountain slope forest in Switzerland. Biogeosciences 7: 2461-2475

Etzold S, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2010) Contribution of advection to the carbon budget measured by eddy covariance at a steep mountain slope forest in Switzerland. Biogeosciences Discussion 7: 1633-1673

Ruehr NK, Buchmann N (2010) Soil respiration fluxes in a temperate mixed forest: seasonality and temperature sensitivities differ among microbial and root-rhizosphere respiration. Tree Physiology 30: 165-176

Ruehr NK, Knohl A, Buchmann N (2010) Environmental variables controlling soil respiration on diurnal, seasonal and annual time-scales in a mixed mountain forest in Switzerland. Biogeochemistry 98: 153-170

2009

Ahrends HE, Etzold S, Kutsch WL, Stoeckli R, Bruegger R, Jeanneret F, Wanner H, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2009) Phenology and carbon dioxide fluxes: use of digital photography for process-based interpretation at the ecosystem scale. Climate Research 39: 261–274

Heim A, Wehrli L, Eugster W, Schmidt MWI (2009) Effects of sampling design on the probability to detect soil carbon stock changes at the Swiss CarboEurope site Lägeren. Geoderma 149: 347-354

Ruehr NK, Knohl A, Buchmann N (2009) Environmental variables controlling soil respiration on diurnal, seasonal and annual time-scales in a mixed mountain forest in Switzerland. Biogeochemistry doi:10.1007/s10533-009-9383-z

2008

Ahrends HA, Brügger R, Schenk J, Michna P, Jeanneret F, Wanner H, Eugster W (2008) Qualitative phenological observations of a mixed beech forest in northern Switzerland with digital photography. Journal Geophysical Research 113: G04004

2007

Eugster W, Zeyer K, Zeeman MJ, Michna P, Zingg A, Buchmann N, Emmenegger L (2007) Methodical study of nitrous oxide eddy covariance measurements using quantum cascade laser spectrometery over a Swiss forest. Biogeosciences 4(5):927-939