The land-to-ocean loops of the global carbon cycle

P Regnier, L Resplandy, RG Najjar, P Ciais - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon storage by the ocean and by the land is usually quantified separately, and does not
fully take into account the land-to-ocean transport of carbon through inland waters …

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 …

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 …

Human alteration of global surface water storage variability

SW Cooley, JC Ryan, LC Smith - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Knowing the extent of human influence on the global hydrological cycle is essential for the
sustainability of freshwater resources on Earth,. However, a lack of water level observations …

[HTML][HTML] Re-estimating China's lake CO2 flux considering spatiotemporal variability

Z Wen, Y Shang, L Lyu, H Tao, G Liu, C Fang… - Environmental Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The spatiotemporal variability of lake partial carbon dioxide pressure (pCO 2) introduces
uncertainty into CO 2 flux estimates at the lake water-air interface. Knowing the variation …

The role of freshwater eutrophication in greenhouse gas emissions: A review

Y Li, J Shang, C Zhang, W Zhang, L Niu, L Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) have long received public attention because they affect the
Earth's climate by producing the greenhouse effect. Freshwaters are an important source of …

Remote sensing of fluorescent humification levels and its potential environmental linkages in lakes across China

Y Shang, K Song, F Lai, L Lyu, G Liu, C Fang, J Hou… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The pollution or eutrophication affected by dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition and
sources of inland waters had attracted concerns from the public and government in China …

Molecular-level composition of dissolved organic matter in distinct trophic states in Chinese lakes: implications for eutrophic lake management and the global carbon …

S Liu, J Hou, C Suo, J Chen, X Liu, R Fu, F Wu - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is an abundant and mobile part of the aquatic environment
and plays important roles in aquatic biogeochemical cycles and the global carbon cycle …

Browning of freshwaters: Consequences to ecosystem services, underlying drivers, and potential mitigation measures

ES Kritzberg, EM Hasselquist, M Škerlep, S Löfgren… - Ambio, 2020 - Springer
Browning of surface waters, as a result of increasing dissolved organic carbon and iron
concentrations, is a widespread phenomenon with implications to the structure and function …

Terrestrial carbon inputs to inland waters: A current synthesis of estimates and uncertainty

TW Drake, PA Raymond… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, inland waters receive a significant but ill‐defined quantity of terrestrial carbon (C).
When summed, the contemporary estimates for the three possible fates of C in inland waters …