The role of sediments in the carbon budget of a small boreal lake. Chmiel, H. E., Kokic, J., Denfeld, B. A., Einarsdóttir, K., Wallin, M. B., Koehler, B., Isidorova, A., Bastviken, D., Ferland, M., & Sobek, S. Limnology and Oceanography, 61(5):1814–1825, September, 2016.
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We investigated the role of lake sediments as carbon (C) source and sink in the annual C budget of a small (0.07 km2) and shallow (mean depth, 3.4 m), humic lake in boreal Sweden. Organic carbon (OC) burial and mineralization in the sediments were quantified from 210Pb-dated sediment and laboratory sediment incubation experiments, respectively. Burial and mineralization rates were then upscaled to the entire basin and to one whole year using sediment thickness derived from sub-bottom profiling, basin morphometry, and water column monitoring data of temperature and oxygen concentration. Furthermore, catchment C import, open water metabolism, photochemical mineralization as well as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions to the atmosphere were quantified to relate sediment processes to other lake C fluxes. We found that on a whole-basin and annual scale, sediment OC mineralization was three times larger than OC burial, and contributed about 16% to the annual CO2 emission. Other contributions to CO2 emission were water column metabolism (31%), photochemical mineralization (6%), and catchment imports via inlet streams and inflow of shallow groundwater (22%). The remainder (25%) could not be explained by our flux calculations, but was most likely attributed to an underestimation in groundwater inflow. We conclude that on an annual and whole-basin scale (1) sediment OC mineralization dominated over OC burial, (2) water column OC mineralization contributed more to lake CO2 emission than sediment OC mineralization, and (3) catchment import of C to the lake was greater than lake-internal C cycling.
@article{chmiel_role_2016,
	title = {The role of sediments in the carbon budget of a small boreal lake},
	volume = {61},
	issn = {1939-5590},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.ub.umu.se/doi/10.1002/lno.10336/abstract},
	doi = {10.1002/lno.10336},
	abstract = {We investigated the role of lake sediments as carbon (C) source and sink in the annual C budget of a small (0.07 km2) and shallow (mean depth, 3.4 m), humic lake in boreal Sweden. Organic carbon (OC) burial and mineralization in the sediments were quantified from 210Pb-dated sediment and laboratory sediment incubation experiments, respectively. Burial and mineralization rates were then upscaled to the entire basin and to one whole year using sediment thickness derived from sub-bottom profiling, basin morphometry, and water column monitoring data of temperature and oxygen concentration. Furthermore, catchment C import, open water metabolism, photochemical mineralization as well as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions to the atmosphere were quantified to relate sediment processes to other lake C fluxes. We found that on a whole-basin and annual scale, sediment OC mineralization was three times larger than OC burial, and contributed about 16\% to the annual CO2 emission. Other contributions to CO2 emission were water column metabolism (31\%), photochemical mineralization (6\%), and catchment imports via inlet streams and inflow of shallow groundwater (22\%). The remainder (25\%) could not be explained by our flux calculations, but was most likely attributed to an underestimation in groundwater inflow. We conclude that on an annual and whole-basin scale (1) sediment OC mineralization dominated over OC burial, (2) water column OC mineralization contributed more to lake CO2 emission than sediment OC mineralization, and (3) catchment import of C to the lake was greater than lake-internal C cycling.},
	language = {en},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2017-05-27},
	journal = {Limnology and Oceanography},
	author = {Chmiel, Hannah E. and Kokic, Jovana and Denfeld, Blaize A. and Einarsdóttir, Karólína and Wallin, Marcus B. and Koehler, Birgit and Isidorova, Anastasija and Bastviken, David and Ferland, Marie-Ève and Sobek, Sebastian},
	month = sep,
	year = {2016},
	keywords = {\#nosource},
	pages = {1814--1825},
}

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