“…The main features of the annual energy balance are low net radiation, higher atmospheric latent heat flux than sensible heat flux, and a large proportion of soil heat flux Kutzbach, 2006; 2011a, b). Previous research has focused on energy and carbon cycling (Abnizova et al, 2012;Knoblauch et al, 2008;Kutzbach et al, 2004Kutzbach et al, , 2007Liebner et al, 2011;Runkle et al, 2013;Sachs et al, 2008Sachs et al, , 2010Wille et al, 2008), ecosystem C modelling (Zhang et al, 2012), land cover classification Schneider et al, 2009), spatial heterogeneity and upscaling of land surface temperature (Langer et al, 2010), biological and paleoenvironmental reconstruction (Wetterich et al, 2008), and the characteristics of microbial communities (Wagner et al, 2007).…”