ICOS Talks: Reconciling the carbon balance of managed boreal forests using integrated bottom-up and top-down approaches
Time: Wednesday 1st April 2026, 10:00-11:00 CET.
Agenda:
- Introduction by Sindu Raj Parampil (Science Integration Officer, ICOS ERIC)
- Matthias Peichl (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences): Reconciling the carbon balance of managed boreal forests using integrated bottom-up and top-down approaches
- Discussion and wrap-up
About the speaker
Matthias Peichl is Professor of Forest Landscape Biogeochemistry in the Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is the principal investigator of the ICOS Ecosystem stations at Svartberget and Degerö in northern Sweden. His research focuses on biosphere–atmosphere exchanges across boreal forest landscapes.
Abstract
Boreal forests represent an important global carbon sink. However, their sink strength remains poorly constrained due to inherent limitations of standard measurement approaches in capturing processes across spatial and temporal scales. Here, Matthias presents a spatially-nested measurement framework based on ICOS infrastructure that integrates bottom-up (forest plot inventories and chamber-based flux measurements) and top-down (eddy-covariance and atmospheric observations) approaches to reconcile the carbon balance of managed boreal forests in northern Sweden across plot, ecosystem, landscape, and regional scales. The talk highlights the value of integrated multi-scale monitoring platforms that co-locate bottom-up and top-down approaches to advance our understanding of terrestrial carbon-cycle–climate feedbacks.
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