Quantifying the relative importance of lake emissions in the carbon budget of a subarctic catchment. Karlsson, J., Christensen, T. R., Crill, P., Förster, J., Hammarlund, D., Jackowicz-Korczynski, M., Kokfelt, U., Roehm, C., & Rosén, P. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 115(G3):G03006, September, 2010. 00037
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Climate change and thawing of permafrost will likely result in increased decomposition of terrestrial organic carbon and subsequent carbon emissions to the atmosphere from terrestrial and aquatic systems. The quantitative importance of mineralization of terrestrial organic carbon in lakes in relation to terrestrial carbon fluxes is poorly understood and a serious drawback for the understanding of carbon budgets. We studied a subarctic lake in an area of discontinuous permafrost to assess the quantitative importance of lake carbon emission for the catchment carbon balance. Estimates of net ecosystem production and stable carbon-isotope composition of dissolved organic carbon in the lake water suggest substantial input and respiration of terrestrial organic carbon in the lake. The lake was a net source of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere at ice breakup in spring and during the whole ice-free period. The carbon emission from the lake was similar in magnitude to the terrestrial net release of carbon to the atmosphere. The results indicate that lakes are important sources of catchment carbon emission, potentially increasing the positive feedback from permafrost thawing on global warming.
@article{karlsson_quantifying_2010,
	title = {Quantifying the relative importance of lake emissions in the carbon budget of a subarctic catchment},
	volume = {115},
	issn = {2156-2202},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010JG001305/abstract},
	doi = {10.1029/2010JG001305},
	abstract = {Climate change and thawing of permafrost will likely result in increased decomposition of terrestrial organic carbon and subsequent carbon emissions to the atmosphere from terrestrial and aquatic systems. The quantitative importance of mineralization of terrestrial organic carbon in lakes in relation to terrestrial carbon fluxes is poorly understood and a serious drawback for the understanding of carbon budgets. We studied a subarctic lake in an area of discontinuous permafrost to assess the quantitative importance of lake carbon emission for the catchment carbon balance. Estimates of net ecosystem production and stable carbon-isotope composition of dissolved organic carbon in the lake water suggest substantial input and respiration of terrestrial organic carbon in the lake. The lake was a net source of CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere at ice breakup in spring and during the whole ice-free period. The carbon emission from the lake was similar in magnitude to the terrestrial net release of carbon to the atmosphere. The results indicate that lakes are important sources of catchment carbon emission, potentially increasing the positive feedback from permafrost thawing on global warming.},
	language = {en},
	number = {G3},
	urldate = {2017-02-06},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences},
	author = {Karlsson, Jan and Christensen, Torben R. and Crill, Patrick and Förster, Johannes and Hammarlund, Dan and Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin and Kokfelt, Ulla and Roehm, Charlotte and Rosén, Peter},
	month = sep,
	year = {2010},
	note = {00037},
	keywords = {\#nosource, 0428 Carbon cycling, 0458 Limnology, 0475 Permafrost, cryosphere, and high-latitude processes, 0490 Trace gases, Limnology, Permafrost, cryosphere, and high-latitude processes, Trace gases, carbon cycling, carbon emission, lake respiration, permafrost, subarctic lake, terrestrial organic carbon},
	pages = {G03006},
}

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