Früebüel (ZG)

Site description

Früebüel (CH-Fru) is one of the three grasslands within the Swiss FluxNet. It is a medium intensively managed grassland at 1000 m asl. The adjacent farm and facilities are part of the external page Agro-Vet Strickhof. Eddy covariance flux measurements were started in August 2005 (tower coordinates: 47°06'57.0" N and 8°32'16.0" E; WGS84 47.115833, 8.537778; at 982 m asl).

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Enlarged view: Früebüel – research station
ETH research station
Enlarged view: Früebüel – technical setup
Technical setup
Enlarged view: Früebüel – eddy station
Eddy covariance tower
Enlarged view: Früebüel – soil sampling
Soil sampling

Publications

2024

Nelson JA, Walther S, Gans F, Kraft B, Weber U, Novick K, Buchmann N, Migliavacca M, Wohlfahrt G, Šigut L, Ibrom A, Papale D, Göckede M, Duveiller G, Knohl A, Hörtnagl L, Scott RL, Zhang W, Hamdi ZM, Reichstein M, Aranda-Barranco S, Ardö J, Op de Beeck M, Billdesbach D, Bowling D, Bracho R, Brümmer C, Camps-Valls G, Chen S, Cleverly JR, Desai A, Dong G, El-Madany TS, Euskirchen ES, Feigenwinter I, Galvagno M, Gerosa GA, Gielen B, Goslee I, Goslee S, Gough CM, Heinesch B, Ichii K, Jackowicz-Korczynski MA, Klosterhalfen A, Knox S, Kobayashi H, Kohonen KM, Korkiakoski M, Mammarella I, Gharun M, Marzuoli R, Matamala R, Metzger S, Montagnani L, Nicolini G, O'Halloran T, Ourcival JM, Peichl M, Pendall E, Ruiz Reverter B, Roland M, Sabbatini S, Sachs T, Schmidt M, Schwalm CR, Shekhar A, Silberstein R, Silveira ML, Spano D, Tagesson T, Tramontana G, Trotta C, Turco F, Vesala T, Vincke C, Vitale D, Vivoni ER, Wang Y, Woodgate W, Yepez EA, Zhang J, Zona D, Jung M (2024) X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X. Biogeosciences 21: 5079-5115, doi: external page 10.5194/bg-21-5079-2024

Nelson JA, ..., Buchmann N, ..., Hörtnagl L, ..., Feigenwinter I, ..., Kohonen KM, ..., Shekhar A, ..., Turco F, ..., Wang Y, Woodgate W, Yepez EA, Zhang J, Zona D, Jung M (2024) X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X. EGUsphere [preprint], doi: external page 10.5194/egusphere-2024-165

Osterwalder S, Schibler R, Hüglin C, Schwarzenbach B, Stupple G, MacSween K,Bishop K, Alewell C, Buchmann N (2024) Spatial and seasonal dynamics of gaseous elemental mercury concentrations over Switzerland observed by a passive air sampler network. Environmental Science: Atmospheres 4: 848-860, doi: external page 10.1039/D4EA00052H

2023

Tang ACI, Flechard CR, Arriga N, Papale D, Stoy PC, Buchmann N, Cuntz M, Douros J, Fares S, Knohl A, Šigut L, Simioni G, Timmermans R, Grünwald T, Ibrom A, Loubet B, Mammarella I, Belelli Marchesini L, Nilsson M, Peichl M, Rebmann C, Schmidt M, Bernhofer C, Berveiller D, Cremonese E, El-Madany TS, Gharun M, Gianelle D, Hörtnagl L, Roland M, Varlagin A, Fu Z, Heinesch B, Janssens I, Kowalska N, Dušek J, Gerosa G, Mölder M, Tuittila E-S, Loustau D (2023) Detection and attribution of an anomaly in terrestrial photosynthesis in Europe during the COVID-19 lockdown. Science of the Total Environment 166149, doi: external page 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166149

Xie M, Ma X, Wang Y, Li C, Shi H, Yuan X, Hellwich O, Chen C, Zhang W, Zhang C, Ling Q, Gao R, Zhang Y, Ochege FU, Frankl A, De Maeyer P, Buchmann N, Feigenwinter I, Olesen JE, Juszczak R, Jacotot A, Korrensalo A, Pitacco A, Varlagin A, Shekhar A, Lohila A, De Ligne A, Carrara A, Brut A, Kruijt B, Loubet B, Heinesch B, Chojnicki B, Helfter C, Vincke C, Shao C, Bernhofer C, Brümmer C, Wille C, Tuittila ES, Nemitz E, Meggio F, Dong G, Lanigan GJ, Niedrist G, Wohlfahrt G, Zhou G, Goded I, Gruenwald T, Olejnik J, Jansen J, Neirynck J, Tuovinen JP, Zhang J, Klumpp K, Pilegaard K, Šigut L, Klemedtsson L, Tezza L, Hörtnagl L, Urbaniak M, Roland M, Schmidt M, Sutton MA, Hehn M, Saunders M, Mauder M, Aurela M, Korkiakoski M, Du M, Vendrame N, Kowalska N, Leahy PG, Alekseychik P, Shi P, Weslien P, Chen S, Fares S, Friborg T, Tallec T, Kato T, Sachs T, Maximov T, Morra di Cella U, Moderow U, Li Y, He Y, Kosugi Y, Luo G (2023) Monitoring of carbon-water fluxes at Eurasian meteorological stations using random forest and remote sensing. Scientific Data 10: 587, doi: external page 10.1038/s41597-023-02473-9

2022

Fu Z, Ciais P, Makowski D, Bastos A, Stoy P,C, Ibrom A, Knohl A, Migliavacca M, Cuntz M, Šigut L, Peichl M, Loustau D, El-Madany TS, Buchmann N, Gharun M, Janssens I, Markwitz C, Grünwald T, Rebmann C, Mölder M, Varlagin A, Mammarella I, Kolari P, Bernhofer C, Heliasz M, Vincke C, Pitacco A, Cremonese E, Foltýnová L, Wigneron J-P (2022) Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems. Global Change Biology 28: 2111-2123, doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.16050

Riedl A, Li Y, Eugster J, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2022) Technical note: High accuracy weighing micro-lysimeter system for long-term measurements of non-rainfall water inputs to grasslands. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 26: 91-116, doi: external page 10.5194/hess-26-91-2022

Rogger J, Hörtnagl L, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2022) Carbon dioxide fluxes of a mountain grassland: drivers, anomalies and annual budgets. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 134: 108801, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108801

Tanner E, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2022) Agricultural ammonia dry deposition and total nitrogen deposition to a Swiss mire. Agricultural Ecosystems and Environment 336: 108009, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108009

2021

Riedl A, Li Y, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2021) Technical note: High accuracy weighing micro-lysimeter system for long-term measurements of non-rainfall water inputs to grasslands. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, external page 10.5194/hess-2021-317 [preprint]

Zhou H, Shao J, Liu H, Du Z, Zhou L, Liu R, Bernhofer C, Grünwald T, Dušek J, Montagnani L, Tagesson T, Black TA, Jassal R, Woodgate W, Biraud S, Varlagin A, Mammarella I, Gharun M, Shekhar A, Buchmann N, Manco A, Magliulo E, Billesbach D, Silberstein RP, Ohta T, Yu G, Chen Z, Zhang Y, Zhou X (2021) Relative importance of climatic variables, soil properties and plant traits to spatial variability in net CO2 exchange across global forests and grasslands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 307: 108506, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108506

2020

Gharun M, Hörtnagl L, Paul-Limoges E, Ghiasi S, Feigenwinter I, Burri S, Marquardt K, Etzold S, Zweifel R, Eugster W, Buchmann N (2020) Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190521, doi: external page 10.1098/rstb.2019.0521

Graf A, Klosterhalfen A, Arriga N, Bernhofer C, Bogena H, Bornet F, Brüggemann N, Brümmer C, Buchmann N, Chi J, Chipeaux C, Cremonese E, Cuntz M, Dušek J, El-Madany TS, Fares S, Fischer M, Foltynova L, Gielen B, Gottschalk P, Gharun M, Ghiasi S, Grünwald T, Heinemann G, Heinesch B, Heliasz M, Holst J, Hörtnagl L, Ibrom A, Ingwersen J, Jurasinski G, Klatt J, Knohl A, Koebsch F, Konopka J, Korkiakoski M, Kowalska N, Kremer P, Kruijt B, Lafont S, Léonard J, De Ligne A, Longdoz B, Loustau D, Magliulo V, Mammarella I, Manca G, Mauder M, Migliavacca M, Mölder M, Ney P, Nilsson M, Neirynck J, Paul-Limoges E, Peichl M, Pitacco A, Poyda A, Rebmann C, Roland M, Sachs T, Schmidt M, Siebicke L, Schrader F, Šigut L, Tuittila ES, Varlagin A, Vendrame N, Vincke C, Völksch I, Wille C, Weber S, Wizemann HD, Zeeman M, Vereecken H (2020) Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375:  20190524, doi: external page 10.1098/rstb.2019.0524

Nelson JA, Pérez-Priego O, Zhou S, Poyatos R, Zhang Y, Blanken PD, Gimeno TE, Wohlfahrt G, Desai AR, Gioli B, Limousin JM, Bonal D, Paul-Limoges E, Scott RL, Varlagin A, Fuchs K, Montagnani L, Wolf S, Delpierre N, Berveiller D, Gharun M, Marchesini LB, Gianelle D, Šigut L, Mammarella I, Siebicke L, Black TA, Knohl A, Hörtnagl L, Magliulo V, Carvalhais N, Migliavacca M, Reichstein M, Jung M (2020) Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites. Global Change Biology 26: 6916-6930, doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.15314

Pastorello GZ, …, Buchmann N, …, Eugster W, …, Feigenwinter I, …, Gharun M, …, Hörtnagl L, …, Maier R, …, Merbold L, …, Paul-Limoges E, …, in total 286 coauthors (2020) The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data. Scientific Data 7: 225, doi: external page 10.1038/s41597-020-0534-3

2019

Gilgen AK, Klaus VH, Lüscher A, Buchmann N (2019) ‘From research – for practice’: translating research findings for practical application. In: Huguenin-Elie O, Studer B, Kolliker R, Reheul D, Probo M, Barre P, Feuerstein U, Roldan-Ruiz I, Mariotte P, Hopkins A (Eds.) Improving sown grasslands through breeding and management. p. 536

2017

Bamberger I, Oney B, Brunner D, Henne S, Leuenberger M, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2017) Observation of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide mixing ratios: Tall tower or mountain top stations? Boundary-Layer Meteorology 163: 135-159 doi: external page 10.1007/s10546-017-0236-3

Wilcox K R, Shi Z, Gherardi L A, Lemoine N P, Koerner S E, Hoover D L, Bork E, Byrne K N, Cahill Jr. J, Collins S L, Gilgen AK, Holub P, Jiang L, Knapp A K, LeCain D, Liang J, Garcia-Palacios P, Peñuelas J, Pockmann W T, Smith M D, Sun S, White S R, Yadjian L, Zhu K, Luo Y (2017) Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology 23: 4376-4385, doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.13706

2015

Oney B, Henne S, Gruber N, Leuenberger M, Bamberger I, Eugster W, Brunner D, (2015) The CarboCount CH sites: characterization of a dense greenhouse gas observation network. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 15: 11147-11164, doi: external page 10.5194/acp-15-11147-2015

Wingate L, Ogée J, Cremonese E, Filippa P, Mizunuma T, Migliavacca M, Moisy C, Wilkinson M, Moureaux C, Wohlfahrt G, Hammerle A, Hörtnagl L, Gimeno C, Porcar-Castell A, Galvagno M, Nakaji T, Morison J, Kolle O, Knohl A, Kutsch W, Kolari P, Nikinmaa E, Ibrom A, Gielen B, Eugster W, Balzarolo M, Papale D, Klumpp K, Köstner B, Grünwald T, Joffre R, Ourcival J-M, Hellstrom M, Lindroth A, Georg C, Longdoz B, Genty B, Levula J, Heinesch B, Sprintsin M, Yakir D, Manise T, Guyon D, Ahrends H, Plaza-Aguilar A, Guan JH, Grace J (2015) Interpreting canopy development and physiology using a European phenology camera network at flux sites. Biogeosciences 12: 5995-6015 external page doi:10.5194/bg-12-5995-2015

2014

Prechsl UE, Gilgen AK, Kahmen A, Buchmann N (2014) Reliability and quality of water isotope data collected with a low budget precipitation collector. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 28: 879-885, doi: external page 10.1002/rcm.6852

2013

Wolf S, Eugster W, Ammann C, Haeni M, Zielis S, Hiller R, Stieger J, Imer D, Merbold L, Buchmann N (2013) Contrasting response of grassland versus forest carbon and water fluxes to spring drought in Switzerland. Environmental Research Letters 8: 035007, doi: external page 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035007

Imer D, Merbold L, Eugster W, Buchmann N (2013) Temporal and spatial variations of CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes at three differently managed grasslands. Biogeosciences 10: 5931-5945, doi: external page 10.5194/bg-10-5931-2013

Finger R, Gilgen AK, Prechsl U, Buchmann N (2013) An economic assessment of drought effects on three grassland systems in Switzerland. Regional Environmental Change 2: 365-374, doi: external page 10.1007/s10113-012-0346-x

2011

Hartmann AA, Buchmann N, Niklaus PA (2011) A study of soil methane sink regulation in two grasslands exposed to drought and N fertilization. Plant and Soil 342: 265-275, doi: external page 10.1007/s11104-010-0690-x

Kindler R, Siemens J, Kaiser K, Walmsley DC, Bernhofer C, Buchmann N, Cellier P, Eugster W, Gleixner G, Grünwald T, Heim A, Ibrom A, Jones SK, Jones M, Klumpp K, Kutsch W, Steenberg Larsen K, Lehuger S, Loubet B, McKenzie R, Moors E, Osborne B, Pilegaard K, Rebmann C, Saunders M, Schmidt MWI, Schrumpf M, Seyfferth J, Skiba U, Soussana JF, Sutton MA, Tefs C, Vowinckel B, Zeeman MJ, Kaupenjohann M (2011) Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance. Global Change Biology 17: 1167-1185, doi: external page 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02282.x

Stiehl-Braun PA, Hartmann AA, Kandeler E, Buchmann N, Niklaus PA (2011) Interactive effects of drought and N fertilisation on the spatial distribution of methane assimilation in grassland soils. Global Change Biology 17: 2629-2639, doi: external page 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02410.x

2010

Zeeman MJ, Hiller R, Gilgen AK, Michna P, Plüss P, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2010) Management, not climate, controls net CO2 fluxes and carbon budgets of three grasslands along an elevational gradient in Switzerland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150: 519-​530, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.01.011

2009

Gilgen AK, Buchmann N (2009) Response of temperate grasslands at different altitudes to simulated summer drought differed but scaled with annual precipitation. Biogeosciences 6: 2525-2539, doi: external page 10.5194/bg-6-2525-2009

2008

Fritsche J, Obrist D, Zeeman MJ, Conen F, Eugster W, Alewell C (2008) Elemental mercury fluxes over a sub-alpine grassland determined with two micrometeorological methods. Atmospheric Environment 42: 2922-2933, doi: external page 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.055

Fritsche J, Wohlfahrt G, Ammann C, Zeeman M, Hammerle A, Obrist D, Alewell C (2008) Summertime elemental mercury exchange of temperate grasslands on an ecosystem-scale. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 8: 1951-1979, doi: external page 10.5194/acp-8-7709-2008

Gilgen AK, Buchmann N (2008) Effects of summer drought on temperate grassland performance. Grassland Science in Europe 13: 913-915

2006

Eugster W, Zeeman MJ (2006) Micrometeorological techniques to measure ecosystem-scale greenhouse gas fluxes for model validation and improvement. International Congress Series 1293: 66-75

Student theses

2020

Elisabeth Tanner (BSc Agrarwissenschaften), ETH Zurich. Ammoniak-Emissionen am Forschungsstandort Früebüel: Einfluss der Landwirtschaft?

Julian Rogger (MSc Agrarwissenschaften), ETH Zurich. The effect of weather extremes on carbon dioxide fluxes on permanent grassland – an analysis of 15 years eddy covariance flux measurements at the Früebüel field site

2011

Anna Beerli (BSc Agroecosystem Sciences), ETH Zurich. Partitioning of soil respiration and effects of simulated extreme summer drought on its temporal course in managed grasslands

Florian Suter (MSc Env. Sciences), ETH Zurich. Greenhouse gases from managed ecosystems: A farm-scale perspective

Ueli Strauss (BSc Geography), University of Bern. Der Einfluss des Föhns auf die Vegetation am Zugerberg: Aufarbeitung des lokalen Klimas im Kanton Zug, insbesondere des Gebiets um Früebüel

2006

Adrian Stohler (Agrar. Ing.), ETH Zurich. Auswirkungen von Trockenheit auf die Bestandesstruktur von Wiesen

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