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Tropical forests as drivers of lake carbon burial
Nature Communications, Vol.13(1), pp.1-7
13/07/2022
PMCID: PMC9279284
PMID: 35831284
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Abstract
A significant proportion of carbon (C) captured by terrestrial primary production is buried in lacustrine ecosystems, which have been substantially affected by anthropogenic activities globally. However, there is a scarcity of sedimentary organic carbon (OC) accumulation information for lakes surrounded by highly productive rainforests at warm tropical latitudes, or in response to land cover and climate change. Here, we combine new data from intensive campaigns spanning 13 lakes across remote Amazonian regions with a broad literature compilation, to produce the first spatially-weighted global analysis of recent OC burial in lakes (over ~50-100-years) that integrates both biome type and forest cover. We find that humid tropical forest lake sediments are a disproportionately important global OC sink of ~80 Tg C yr−1 with implications for climate change. Further, we demonstrate that temperature and forest conservation are key factors in maintaining massive organic carbon pools in tropical lacustrine sediments.
Details
- Title
- Tropical forests as drivers of lake carbon burial
- Creators
- Leonardo Amora-Nogueira - Universidade Federal FluminenseChristian J. Sanders - Southern Cross UniversityAlex Enrich-Prast - Linköping UniversityLuciana Silva Monteiro Sanders - Universidade Federal FluminenseRodrigo Coutinho Abuchacra - Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroPatricia F. Moreira-Turcq - Géosciences Environnement ToulouseRenato Campello Cordeiro - Universidade Federal FluminenseVincent Gauci - University of BirminghamLuciane Silva Moreira - Universidade Federal FluminenseFausto Machado-Silva - University of ToledoRenata Libonati - University of LisbonThairiny Fonseca - Universidade Federal FluminenseCristiane Nunes Francisco - Universidade Federal FluminenseHumberto Marotta - Universidade Federal Fluminense
- Publication Details
- Nature Communications, Vol.13(1), pp.1-7
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Grant note
- Open access funding provided by Linköping University.
- Identifiers
- 991013037545202368
- Copyright
- Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2022
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; National Marine Science Centre; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article