Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

OJ Schmitz, CC Wilmers, SJ Leroux, CE Doughty… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Modern advances in remote-sensing technology are providing
unprecedented opportunities to accurately measure the global distribution of carbon held in …

Feedback between climate change and eutrophication: revisiting the allied attack concept and how to strike back

M Meerhoff, J Audet, TA Davidson, L De Meester… - Inland Waters, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite its well-established negative impacts on society and biodiversity, eutrophication
continues to be one of the most pervasive anthropogenic influences along the freshwater to …

[HTML][HTML] Tradeoffs and synergies in wetland multifunctionality: A scaling issue

PA Hambäck, L Dawson, P Geranmayeh… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wetland area in agricultural landscapes has been heavily reduced to gain land for crop
production, but in recent years there is increased societal recognition of the negative …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of phytoplankton blooms on fluxes and emissions of greenhouse gases in a eutrophic lake

M Bartosiewicz, R Maranger, A Przytulska, I Laurion - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Lakes are important sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the atmosphere. Factors
controlling CO 2, CH 4 and N 2 O fluxes include eutrophication and warming, but the …

Potential role of submerged macrophytes for oxic methane production in aquatic ecosystems

S Hilt, HP Grossart, DF McGinnis… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Methane (CH4) from aquatic ecosystems contributes to about half of total global CH4
emissions to the atmosphere. Until recently, aquatic biogenic CH4 production was …

Using aquatic animals as partners to increase yield and maintain soil nitrogen in the paddy ecosystems

L Guo, L Zhao, J Ye, Z Ji, JJ Tang, K Bai, S Zheng, L Hu… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Whether species coculture can overcome the shortcomings of crop monoculture requires
additional study. Here, we show how aquatic animals (ie carp, crabs, and softshell turtles) …

Spatial and temporal variability in summertime dissolved carbon dioxide and methane in temperate ponds and shallow lakes

NE Ray, MA Holgerson, MR Andersen… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small waterbodies have potentially high greenhouse gas emissions relative to their small
footprint on the landscape, although there is high uncertainty in model estimates. Scaling …

Food webs and ecosystems: Linking species interactions to the carbon cycle

OJ Schmitz, SJ Leroux - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
All species within ecosystems contribute to regulating carbon cycling because of their
functional integration into food webs. Yet carbon modeling and accounting still assumes that …

The CO2‐equivalent balance of freshwater ecosystems is non‐linearly related to productivity

C Grasset, S Sobek, K Scharnweber… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Eutrophication of fresh waters results in increased CO2 uptake by primary production, but at
the same time increased emissions of CH4 to the atmosphere. Given the contrasting effects …

Disproportionate Contribution of Vegetated Habitats to the CH4 and CO2 Budgets of a Boreal Lake

K Desrosiers, T DelSontro, PA Del Giorgio - Ecosystems, 2022 - Springer
Many lakes have areas that are colonized by different types of macrophytes, including
emergent plants that are rooted in sediments. Emergent macrophytes are known to influence …