Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands

Gwenaël Abril (), Jean-Michel Martinez, L. Felipe Artigas, Patricia Moreira-Turcq, Marc F. Benedetti, Luciana Vidal, Tarik Meziane, Jung-Hyun Kim, Marcelo C. Bernardes, Nicolas Savoye, Jonathan Deborde, Edivaldo Lima Souza, Patrick Albéric, Marcelo F. Landim de Souza and Fabio Roland
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Gwenaël Abril: Laboratoire Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France
Jean-Michel Martinez: Laboratoire Géosciences et Environnement de Toulouse, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paul Sabatier, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
L. Felipe Artigas: Laboratoire d’Océanologie et Géosciences, CNRS, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, 32 avenue Foch, 62930 Wimereux, France
Patricia Moreira-Turcq: Laboratoire Géosciences et Environnement de Toulouse, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paul Sabatier, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
Marc F. Benedetti: Equipe Géochimie des Eaux, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 35 rue Hélène Brion, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
Luciana Vidal: Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, MG 36036-900 Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Tarik Meziane: Laboratoire Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques (BOREA), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, IRD, UPMC, 61 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
Jung-Hyun Kim: NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), Texel, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands
Marcelo C. Bernardes: Programa de Geoquímica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Outeiro São João Batista, RJ 24020015 Niterói, Brazil
Nicolas Savoye: Laboratoire Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France
Jonathan Deborde: Laboratoire Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France
Edivaldo Lima Souza: Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, DF 70.910-900 Brasília, Brazil
Patrick Albéric: Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans, 1A rue de la Férollerie, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
Marcelo F. Landim de Souza: Laboratório de Oceanografia Química, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Ilhéus-Itabuna, 45662-900 Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
Fabio Roland: Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, MG 36036-900 Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Nature, 2014, vol. 505, issue 7483, 395-398

Abstract: Global carbon budgets reveal that inland waters emit substantial amounts of carbon, which is believed to originate from the terrestrial biosphere; however, here the carbon emitted from the Amazon River system is shown to originate from temporary wetlands in the flooded area itself, such as flooded forests.

Date: 2014
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