Environmental controls of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions from a grazed grassland in Dorinne, Belgium

Despite the growing interest for oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOC) over the last 15 years due to their role in the atmospheric chemistry, current knowledge about OVOC exchanges by grassland and the environmental factors driving them still entails gaps. However, those ecosystems represent an important part of the total earth surface (13.37%). This study conducted on a grazed grassland therefore aims to quantify OVOC exchanges over full grazing seasons in order to understand the mechanisms behind these OVOC exchanges. The Eddy Covariance method was used for flux quantification, with a... Mehr ...