Integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment
Northern inland waters emit CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere but the importance of these emissions is poorly understood due to a lack of integrated catchment-scale estimates of carbon (C) emissions from lakes and streams. In this study we quantified the annual emission of CO2 and CH4 from 27 lakes and...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:bbbb049c-0b74-4235-9b65-ee3ea2deb1a5 2023-05-15T17:44:39+02:00 Integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment Lundin, Erik J. Giesler, Reiner Persson, Andreas Thompson, Megan S. Karlsson, Jan 2013 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4170550 https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrg.20092 eng eng Wiley https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4170550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrg.20092 wos:000325549900019 scopus:84886655050 Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences; 118(3), pp 1200-1207 (2013) ISSN: 2169-8953 Physical Geography subarctic streams lakes CO2 CH4 emission contributiontojournal/article info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2013 ftulundlup https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrg.20092 2023-02-01T23:28:56Z Northern inland waters emit CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere but the importance of these emissions is poorly understood due to a lack of integrated catchment-scale estimates of carbon (C) emissions from lakes and streams. In this study we quantified the annual emission of CO2 and CH4 from 27 lakes and 23 stream segments in a 15km(2) subarctic catchment in northern Sweden. All lakes and streams were net sources of C to the atmosphere on an annual basis. Streams dominated (96%) the aquatic CO2 emission while lakes (61%) dominated the aquatic CH4 emission. Total aquatic C emission from the catchment was estimated to be 9.1gCm(-2)yr(-1) (98% as CO2). Although streams only accounted for 4% of the aquatic area in the catchment, they accounted for 95% of the total emission. The C emissions from lakes and streams were considerably larger than previously reported downstream waterborne export of C from the catchment, indicating that the atmospheric losses of C in the aquatic systems are an important component in the catchment C balance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Subarctic Lund University Publications (LUP) Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 118 3 1200 1207 |
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Northern inland waters emit CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere but the importance of these emissions is poorly understood due to a lack of integrated catchment-scale estimates of carbon (C) emissions from lakes and streams. In this study we quantified the annual emission of CO2 and CH4 from 27 lakes and 23 stream segments in a 15km(2) subarctic catchment in northern Sweden. All lakes and streams were net sources of C to the atmosphere on an annual basis. Streams dominated (96%) the aquatic CO2 emission while lakes (61%) dominated the aquatic CH4 emission. Total aquatic C emission from the catchment was estimated to be 9.1gCm(-2)yr(-1) (98% as CO2). Although streams only accounted for 4% of the aquatic area in the catchment, they accounted for 95% of the total emission. The C emissions from lakes and streams were considerably larger than previously reported downstream waterborne export of C from the catchment, indicating that the atmospheric losses of C in the aquatic systems are an important component in the catchment C balance. |
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Lundin, Erik J. Giesler, Reiner Persson, Andreas Thompson, Megan S. Karlsson, Jan |
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Integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment |
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Integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment |
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Integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment |
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Integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment |
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Integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment |
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integrating carbon emissions from lakes and streams in a subarctic catchment |
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Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences; 118(3), pp 1200-1207 (2013) ISSN: 2169-8953 |
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