An integrative conceptualization of floodplain storage

E Wohl - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplains perform diverse functions, including attenuation of fluxes of water, solutes, and
particulate material. Critical details of floodplain storage including magnitude, duration, and …

Source-to-sink sedimentary systems and global carbon burial: A river runs through it

EL Leithold, NE Blair, KW Wegmann - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Source to sink sedimentary systems are important settings of carbon cycling, serving as sites
of carbon transfer between terrestrial and marine reservoirs, and as the primary locations for …

Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands

G Abril, JM Martinez, LF Artigas, P Moreira-Turcq… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
River systems connect the terrestrial biosphere, the atmosphere and the ocean in the global
carbon cycle. A recent estimate suggests that up to 3 petagrams of carbon per year could be …

Molecular-level changes of dissolved organic matter along the Amazon River-to-ocean continuum

M Seidel, PL Yager, ND Ward, EJ Carpenter… - Marine Chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Coastal oceans link terrestrial and marine carbon cycles. Yet, carbon sources and sinks in
these biomes remain poorly understood. Here, we explore the dynamics of dissolved …

Fate of the Amazon River dissolved organic matter in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

PM Medeiros, M Seidel, ND Ward… - Global …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Constraining the fate of dissolved organic matter (DOM) delivered by rivers is a key to
understand the global carbon cycle, since DOM mineralization directly influences air‐sea …

Source, transport and fluxes of Amazon River particulate organic carbon: Insights from river sediment depth-profiles

J Bouchez, V Galy, RG Hilton, J Gaillardet… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to reveal particulate organic carbon (POC) source and mode of transport in the
largest river basin on Earth, we sampled the main sediment-laden tributaries of the Amazon …

Vertically stratified water source characteristics and associated driving mechanisms of particulate organic carbon in a large floodplain lake system

S Wang, Y Gao, J Jia, Y Lu, K Sun, X Ha, Z Li, W Deng - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Particulate organic carbon (POC) is an important component of lake organic carbon (C)
pools, of which different factors drive vertical distributions and sources. This study used the …

Organic molecular signatures of the Congo River and comparison to the Amazon

MR Kurek, A Stubbins, TW Drake… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Congo and Amazon are the two largest rivers on Earth and serve as major
sources of dissolved organic carbon to the ocean. We compared the dissolved organic …

The compositional evolution of dissolved and particulate organic matter along the lower Amazon River—Óbidos to the ocean

ND Ward, AV Krusche, HO Sawakuchi, DC Brito… - Marine Chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
River systems play a pivotal role in transporting and transforming organic carbon (OC) fixed
by terrestrial primary production. However, there is a fundamental gap in our understanding …

Chemodiversity of dissolved organic matter in the Amazon Basin

M Gonsior, J Valle, P Schmitt-Kopplin… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
Regions in the Amazon Basin have been associated with specific biogeochemical
processes, but a detailed chemical classification of the abundant and ubiquitous dissolved …