The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers.
The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers.
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10.1073/pnas.2106322119
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发表时间:
2022-03-15
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Raymond PA
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作者:
Liu S;Kuhn C;Amatulli G;Aho K;Butman DE;Allen GH;Lin P;Pan M;Yamazaki D;Brinkerhoff C;Gleason C;Xia X;Raymond PA
Stream/river carbon dioxide (CO2) emission has significant spatial and seasonal variations critical for understanding its macroecosystem controls and plumbing of the terrestrial carbon budget. We relied on direct fluvial CO2 partial pressure measurements and seasonally varying gas transfer velocity and river network surface area estimates to resolve reach-level seasonal variations of the flux at the global scale. The percentage of terrestrial primary production (GPP) shunted into rivers that ultimately contributes to CO2 evasion increases with discharge across regions, due to a stronger response in fluvial CO2 evasion to discharge than GPP. This highlights the importance of hydrology, in particular water throughput, in terrestrial–fluvial carbon transfers and the need to account for this effect in plumbing the terrestrial carbon budget. The magnitude of stream and river carbon dioxide (CO2) emission is affected by seasonal changes in watershed biogeochemistry and hydrology. Global estimates of this flux are, however, uncertain, relying on calculated values for CO2 and lacking spatial accuracy or seasonal variations critical for understanding macroecosystem controls of the flux. Here, we compiled 5,910 direct measurements of fluvial CO2 partial pressure and modeled them against watershed properties to resolve reach-scale monthly variations of the flux. The direct measurements were then combined with seasonally resolved gas transfer velocity and river surface area estimates from a recent global hydrography dataset to constrain the flux at the monthly scale. Globally, fluvial CO2 emission varies between 112 and 209 Tg of carbon per month. The monthly flux varies much more in Arctic and northern temperate rivers than in tropical and southern temperate rivers (coefficient of variation: 46 to 95 vs. 6 to 12%). Annual fluvial CO2 emission to terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) ratio is highly variable across regions, ranging from negligible (<0.2%) to 18%. Nonlinear regressions suggest a saturating increase in GPP and a nonsaturating, steeper increase in fluvial CO2 emission with discharge across regions, which leads to higher percentages of GPP being shunted into rivers for evasion in wetter regions. This highlights the importance of hydrology, in particular water throughput, in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via the global drainage networks. Our results suggest the need to account for the differential hydrological responses of terrestrial–atmospheric vs. fluvial–atmospheric carbon exchanges in plumbing the terrestrial carbon budget.
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影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Allen GH;Pavelsky TM;Barefoot EA;Lamb MP;Butman D;Tashie A;Gleason CJ
通讯作者:
Gleason CJ
影响因子:
20.6
作者:
Ciais P;Yao Y;Gasser T;Baccini A;Wang Y;Lauerwald R;Peng S;Bastos A;Li W;Raymond PA;Canadell JG;Peters GP;Andres RJ;Chang J;Yue C;Dolman AJ;Haverd V;Hartmann J;Laruelle G;Konings AG;King AW;Liu Y;Luyssaert S;Maignan F;Patra PK;Peregon A;Regnier P;Pongratz J;Poulter B;Shvidenko A;Valentini R;Wang R;Broquet G;Yin Y;Zscheischler J;Guenet B;Goll DS;Ballantyne AP;Yang H;Qiu C;Zhu D
通讯作者:
Zhu D
影响因子:
5.4
作者:
Brooks, Paul D.;Troch, Peter A.;Schlegel, Melissa
通讯作者:
Schlegel, Melissa
影响因子:
7.4
作者:
DAVISON, W;WOOF, C
通讯作者:
WOOF, C
影响因子:
18.3
作者:
Battin, Tom J.;Kaplan, Louis A.;Sabater, Francesc
通讯作者:
Sabater, Francesc