In this study, the cumulative CO2 respiration and CH4
emissions are estimated over one year (2006) and three months
(August–November 2006), respectively. The experimental area is
a flat peat meadow in the Netherlands with heterogeneous CO2
and CH4 source strengths. The objective is to compare the
cumulative field emissions derived based on chamber measurements
with the cumulative emissions based on EC flux measurements.
Two emission scenarios are compared: the first scenario
took only fields into account, the second scenario took the
three main landscape elements (fields, ditches, ditch edges) into
account when up-scaling the chamber measurements to landscape
scale.