Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming

Taylor Maavara (), Ronny Lauerwald, Pierre Regnier and Philippe Van Cappellen
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Taylor Maavara: Ecohydrology Research Group, Water Institute, University of Waterloo
Ronny Lauerwald: Environment & Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Pierre Regnier: Environment & Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Philippe Van Cappellen: Ecohydrology Research Group, Water Institute, University of Waterloo

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract The damming of rivers represents one of the most far-reaching human modifications of the flows of water and associated matter from land to sea. Dam reservoirs are hotspots of sediment accumulation, primary productivity (P) and carbon mineralization (R) along the river continuum. Here we show that for the period 1970–2030, global carbon mineralization in reservoirs exceeds carbon fixation (P

Date: 2017
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