Innovative technologies across scales to disentangle carbon dioxide and evapotranspiration fluxes of forests

The INETFLUX project connects Czech and Swiss research institutions within ESFRI ICOS ERIC to strengthen bilateral cooperation. It focuses on understanding carbon and water fluxes in forest ecosystems and their responses to climate change, particularly net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) and evapotranspiration (ET), key processes governing forest carbon sinks and energy balance under increasing drought and heat stress. 

The project aims to develop and validate new methods for partitioning NEE and ET into their components"gross primary production, ecosystem respiration, transpiration, and evaporation"and to identify their environmental drivers. This is achieved by integrating isotopic analyses, dendrometer and sap flow measurements, eddy covariance observations combined with machine learning, and high-resolution remote sensing. Research is conducted at three contrasting forest sites (Davos, Bily Kriz, Lanzho). 
LEAD bei ETH Zurich.