Mariah’s paper, “Interannual precipitation controls on soil CO2 fluxes in high elevation conifer and aspen forests,” has been published in Environmental Research Letters. This work is the result of a dozen years of field measurements (with some help from Andrew) at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado. The analysis shows that soil CO2 fluxes are sensitive to rainfall in the current growing season, as well as snowfall in the previous winter. Our newly-funded DOE project, leveraging the Snodgrass mountain transect, will build on these results.
