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A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems
Organic carbon accumulation in the sediments of inland aquatic and coastal ecosystems is an important process in the global carbon budget that is subject to intense human modification. To date, research has focused on quantifying accumulation rates in individual or groups of aquatic ecosystems to qu...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6200792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30356084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34126-y |
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author | Wilkinson, Grace M. Besterman, Alice Buelo, Cal Gephart, Jessica Pace, Michael L. |
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description | Organic carbon accumulation in the sediments of inland aquatic and coastal ecosystems is an important process in the global carbon budget that is subject to intense human modification. To date, research has focused on quantifying accumulation rates in individual or groups of aquatic ecosystems to quantify the aquatic carbon sinks. However, there hasn’t been a synthesis of rates across aquatic ecosystem to address the variability in rates within and among ecosystems types. Doing so would identify gaps in our understanding of accumulation rates and potentially reveal carbon sinks vulnerable to change. We synthesized accumulation rates from the literature, compiling 464 rate measurements from 103 studies of carbon accumulated in the modern period (ca. 200 years). Accumulation rates from the literature spanned four orders of magnitude varying substantially within and among ecosystem categories, with mean estimates for ecosystem categories ranging from 15.6 to 73.2 g C m(−2) y(−1) within ecosystem categories. With the exception of lakes, mean accumulation rates were poorly constrained due to high variability and paucity of data. Despite the high uncertainty, the estimates of modern accumulation rate compiled here are an important step for constructing carbon budgets and predicting future change. |
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spelling | pubmed-62007922018-10-26 A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems Wilkinson, Grace M. Besterman, Alice Buelo, Cal Gephart, Jessica Pace, Michael L. Sci Rep Article Organic carbon accumulation in the sediments of inland aquatic and coastal ecosystems is an important process in the global carbon budget that is subject to intense human modification. To date, research has focused on quantifying accumulation rates in individual or groups of aquatic ecosystems to quantify the aquatic carbon sinks. However, there hasn’t been a synthesis of rates across aquatic ecosystem to address the variability in rates within and among ecosystems types. Doing so would identify gaps in our understanding of accumulation rates and potentially reveal carbon sinks vulnerable to change. We synthesized accumulation rates from the literature, compiling 464 rate measurements from 103 studies of carbon accumulated in the modern period (ca. 200 years). Accumulation rates from the literature spanned four orders of magnitude varying substantially within and among ecosystem categories, with mean estimates for ecosystem categories ranging from 15.6 to 73.2 g C m(−2) y(−1) within ecosystem categories. With the exception of lakes, mean accumulation rates were poorly constrained due to high variability and paucity of data. Despite the high uncertainty, the estimates of modern accumulation rate compiled here are an important step for constructing carbon budgets and predicting future change. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6200792/ /pubmed/30356084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34126-y Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Wilkinson, Grace M. Besterman, Alice Buelo, Cal Gephart, Jessica Pace, Michael L. A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems |
title | A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems |
title_full | A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems |
title_fullStr | A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems |
title_full_unstemmed | A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems |
title_short | A synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems |
title_sort | synthesis of modern organic carbon accumulation rates in coastal and aquatic inland ecosystems |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6200792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30356084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34126-y |
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