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Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski

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Quantifying the relative importance of lake emissions in the carbon budget of a subarctic catchment

Författare

  • Jan Karlsson
  • Torben Christensen
  • Patrick Crill
  • Johannes Forster
  • Dan Hammarlund
  • Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski
  • Ulla Kokfelt
  • Charlotte Roehm
  • Peter Rosen

Summary, in English

Climate change and thawing of permafrost will likely result in increased decomposition of terrestrial organic carbon and subsequent carbon emissions to the atmosphere from terrestrial and aquatic systems. The quantitative importance of mineralization of terrestrial organic carbon in lakes in relation to terrestrial carbon fluxes is poorly understood and a serious drawback for the understanding of carbon budgets. We studied a subarctic lake in an area of discontinuous permafrost to assess the quantitative importance of lake carbon emission for the catchment carbon balance. Estimates of net ecosystem production and stable carbon-isotope composition of dissolved organic carbon in the lake water suggest substantial input and respiration of terrestrial organic carbon in the lake. The lake was a net source of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere at ice breakup in spring and during the whole ice-free period. The carbon emission from the lake was similar in magnitude to the terrestrial net release of carbon to the atmosphere. The results indicate that lakes are important sources of catchment carbon emission, potentially increasing the positive feedback from permafrost thawing on global warming.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • Kvartärgeologi
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volym

115

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Physical Geography
  • Geology

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2156-2202