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Acknowledgements

The CarboEurope project team is a diverse group of about 300 scientists who are collectively responsible for obtaining the measurements on which this integrated analysis is based. We are truly grateful to every one of them. We acknowledge funding from the European Union 6th Framework Programme through CarboEurope-IP (Project No. GOCE-CT-2003ñ505572). The EU funding was supplemented by national funding from the different nations participating in the project. S.L. was supported by the Centre of Excellence ECO (UA-Methusalem). P.S. is a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder. We thank the Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry for their support in project coordination. Specifically, we are grateful to A. Boener for artwork, and Y. Hofman and A. Thuille for administrative support throughout the project.

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  1. Max-Planck Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena, 07701, Germany
    E. D. Schulze, M. Heimann, C. Rödenbeck & J. Nieschulze
  2. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL-LSCE, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif sur Yvette, France
    S. Luyssaert, P. Ciais, P. Bousquet, P. Peylin, N. Vuichard & Z. Poussi
  3. Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, B-2610, Belgium
    S. Luyssaert & I. A. Janssens
  4. Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Institut für Agrarrelevante Klimaforschung, Braunschweig, D-38116, Germany
    A. Freibauer
  5. INRA, UREP Grassland Ecosystem Research, Clermont-Ferrand, France
    J. F. Soussana
  6. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK
    P. Smith & M. Wattenbach
  7. School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JN, UK
    J. Grace
  8. Institut für Umweltphysik,University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
    I. Levin
  9. Institut für Energiewirtschaft und Rationelle Energieanwendung, University of Stuttgart, Germany
    B. Thiruchittampalam
  10. VU University, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
    A. J. Dolman & J. H. Gash
  11. Department of Forest Science and Environment, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
    R. Valentini
  12. Wageningen University and Research Centre, PO Box 47, NL-6700AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    W. Peters
  13. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via Vigna Murata 605, Roma, 00143, Italy
    G. Etiope
  14. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
    J. H. Gash
  15. European Forest Institute, Torikatu 24, Joensuu, 80100, Finland
    G. J. Nabuurs

Authors

  1. E. D. Schulze
  2. S. Luyssaert
  3. P. Ciais
  4. A. Freibauer
  5. I. A. Janssens
  6. J. F. Soussana
  7. P. Smith
  8. J. Grace
  9. I. Levin
  10. B. Thiruchittampalam
  11. M. Heimann
  12. A. J. Dolman
  13. R. Valentini
  14. P. Bousquet
  15. P. Peylin
  16. W. Peters
  17. C. Rödenbeck
  18. G. Etiope
  19. N. Vuichard
  20. M. Wattenbach
  21. G. J. Nabuurs
  22. Z. Poussi
  23. J. Nieschulze
  24. J. H. Gash

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the CarboEurope Team

Contributions

E.D.S. coordinated the project, P.C. was responsible for assembling grassland and cropland syntheses, coordinating the atmospheric measurements and inverse model synthesis, S.L. was responsible for assembling the forest synthesis and the uncertainty analysis, A.F. contributed GHG data, I.A.J. developed the ecosystem flow chart, J.F.S., P.S. and J.G. were responsible for the grassland, cropland and forest data respectively, I.L. and B.T. contributed the fossil fuel emission data, G.E. contributed the geological data, M.H., P.B., P.P., W.P. and C.R. contributed inversion modelling results, A.J.D. contributed with regionalization of continental fluxes, R.V. was responsible for the eddy-flux network, J.G.N. contributed the forest inventory data, M.W. and N.V. contributed spatial data of N2O and CH4 in agriculture, Z.P. and J.N. prepared the regional maps, E.D.S., I.A.J., S.L. and J.H.G. wrote the text.

E. D. Schulze1, S. Luyssaert2, 3, P. Ciais2, A. Freibauer4, I. A. Janssens3, J. F. Soussana5, P. Smith6, J. Grace7, I. Levin8, B. Thiruchittampalam9, M. Heimann1, A. J. Dolman10, R. Valentini11, P. Bousquet2, P. Peylin2, W. Peters12, C. Rödenbeck1, G. Etiope13, N. Vuichard2, M. Wattenbach6, G. J. Nabuurs15, Z. Poussi2, J. Nieschulze1, J. H. Gash10, 14, and the CarboEurope Team16

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Schulze, E., Luyssaert, S., Ciais, P. et al. Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance.Nature Geosci 2, 842–850 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo686

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