The global methane budget 2000–2017

M Saunois, AR Stavert, B Poulter… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
Understanding and quantifying the global methane (CH 4) budget is important for assessing
realistic pathways to mitigate climate change. Atmospheric emissions and concentrations of …

River dam impacts on biogeochemical cycling

T Maavara, Q Chen, K Van Meter, LE Brown… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
The increased use of hydropower is currently driving the greatest surge in global dam
construction since the mid-20th century, meaning that most major rivers on Earth are now …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

X Pi, Q Luo, L Feng, Y Xu, J Tang, X Liang, E Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lakes are important natural resources and carbon gas emitters and are undergoing rapid
changes worldwide in response to climate change and human activities. A detailed global …

Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources

JA Rosentreter, AV Borges, BR Deemer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas that plays a major role in controlling the
Earth's climate. The causes of the renewed increase of methane concentration since 2007 …

Global methane emissions from rivers and streams

G Rocher-Ros, EH Stanley, LC Loken, NJ Casson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas and its concentrations have tripled in the
atmosphere since the industrial revolution. There is evidence that global warming has …

Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change

RI Woolway, S Sharma, GA Weyhenmeyer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
One of the most important physical characteristics driving lifecycle events in lakes is
stratification. Already subtle variations in the timing of stratification onset and break-up …

Global extent of rivers and streams

GH Allen, TM Pavelsky - Science, 2018 - science.org
The turbulent surfaces of rivers and streams are natural hotspots of biogeochemical
exchange with the atmosphere. At the global scale, the total river-atmosphere flux of trace …

Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers

J Poore, T Nemecek - Science, 2018 - science.org
Food's environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify
solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, we consolidated data covering five …

Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

J Heino, J Alahuhta, LM Bini, Y Cai… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Anthropocene presents formidable threats to freshwater ecosystems. Lakes are
especially vulnerable and important at the same time. They cover only a small area …