Mass and Energy Fluxes over Agricultural Ecosystems
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 62
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon cycle; water cycle; water use efficiency; eddy covariance; spatial variation
Interests: environmental impact assessment; life-cycle assessment (LCA); sustainability; climate change; water analysis; hydrology
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Dear Colleagues,
Mass and energy fluxes, reflecting their exchange rates between pools occurring at divergent interfaces, are related to the productivity and biomass, thus the ability of ecosystems to serve human beings. Analyzing the variations in agroecosystems, including the temporal and spatial variations of mass and energy fluxes, would address the mechanisms underlying the differences in crop productivities and biomass, thus the ability of ecosystems to serve human beings. Many ways, including in situ measurements and numerous simulations, were employed to quantify mass and energy fluxes, which provided a data basis for revealing their variations.
In this Special Issue, we welcome all manuscripts focusing on the variations of the mass and energy fluxes over agricultural ecosystems, including the results from measurements and simulations. The variations included the temporal variations from diurnal to seasonal and interannual and spatial variations. The mass and energy flux included carbon, nitrogen, water, latent heat, and heat fluxes. The measurements include the micrometeorological theory-based eddy covariance measurements and chamber-based measurements. The simulations include those from remote sensing, data-driven, and process-based models. In addition, manuscripts focusing on the interactions between mass and energy fluxes and results comparing multiple ways, which would help to understand the mass and energy fluxes, are also highly welcomed.
Prof. Dr. Xianjin Zhu
Dr. Brad Ridoutt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eddy covariance
- agricultural ecosystems
- climate change
- temporal variation
- spatial variation
- modelling
- carbon flux
- water flux
- nitrogen flux
- energy flux
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