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      <creatorName nameType="Personal">Gielen, Bert</creatorName>
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      <affiliation>ICOS ETC - University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium</affiliation>
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      <affiliation>ICOS ETC - University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy</affiliation>
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    <title>ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Site Characterization Measurements in Forest</title>
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  <publisher>ICOS Ecosystem Thematic Centre</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2017</publicationYear>
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    <subject>site characterization measurements</subject>
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    <description xml:lang="en-uk" descriptionType="Abstract">This document describes the measurements to perform at the beginning of the ICOS forest station operation in order to characterize the site investigated. These characterization measurements include (i) measurements of species presence to characterize the forest in terms of botanical composition, (ii) measurements of Aboveground Biomass and (iii) of the Green Area Index.</description>
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