Ultra-low-cost manual soil respiration chamber
<p>Soil respiration measurement is important to assess natural carbon dioxide production. The closed-chamber technique allows relatively easy soil respiration monitoring. A planned spatially large-scale campaign incites us to implement our ultra-low-cost portative chamber. The chamber itself i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2024-03-01
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| Series: | Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems |
| Online Access: | https://gi.copernicus.org/articles/13/51/2024/gi-13-51-2024.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>Soil respiration measurement is important to assess natural carbon dioxide production. The closed-chamber technique allows relatively easy soil respiration monitoring. A planned spatially large-scale campaign incites us to implement our ultra-low-cost portative chamber. The chamber itself is entirely built from commercial parts with little, easy-to-perform, quick machining work. The resulting setup is an easy-to-operate, standalone, robust device. The used sensors are cost-effective yet accurate digital sensors that were successfully checked against some reference sensors. All of these characteristics made the described chamber accessible to build and use for a wide scientific and educational community. In this short note, we describe this simple device along with its sensors and apparent respiration quotient tip.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 2193-0856 2193-0864 |