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Anthropogenic alteration of nutrient supply increases the global freshwater carbon sink
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posted on 2020-05-07, 13:13 authored by Nicholas John AndersonNicholas John Anderson, AJ Heathcote, DR Engstrom, David RyvesDavid Ryves, K Mills, YT Prairie, PA del Giorgio, H Bennion, S Turner, NL Rose, VJ Jones, N Solovieva, A Cook Shinneman, CE Umbanhowar, SC Fritz, D Verschuren, JE Saros, JM Russell, R Bindler, B Valero-Garcés, MB Edlund, RD Dietz, AE MyrboLakes have a disproportionate effect on the global carbon (C) cycle relative to their area, mediating C transfer from land to atmosphere, and burying organic-C in their sediments. The magnitude and temporal variability of C burial is, however, poorly constrained, and the degree to which humans have influenced lake C cycling through landscape alteration has not been systematically assessed. Here, we report global and biome specific trajectories of lake C sequestration based on 516 lakes and show that some lake C burial rates (i.e., those in tropical forest and grassland biomes) have quadrupled over the last 100 years. Global lake C-sequestration (~0.12 Pg year−1) has increased by ~72 Tg year−1 since 1900, offsetting 20% of annual CO2 freshwater emissions rising to ~30% if reservoirs are included and contributing to the residual continental C sink. Nutrient availability explains ~70% of the observed increase, while rising temperatures have a minimal effect.
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Science AdvancesVolume
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16Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of ScienceVersion
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© The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.Publisher statement
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Acceptance date
2020-01-22Publication date
2020-04-15Copyright date
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2375-2548Publisher version
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- en
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Dr Dave Ryves. Deposit date: 6 May 2020Article number
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