Carbon dioxide fluxes increase from day to night across European streams

Katrin Attermeyer*, Joan Pere Casas-Ruiz, Thomas Fuss, Ada Pastor, Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié, Danny Sheath, Anna C. Nydahl, Alberto Doretto, Ana Paula Portela, Brian C. Doyle, Nikolay Simov, C Gutmann Roberts, Georg H. Niedrist, Xisca Timoner, Vesela Evtimova, Laura Barral-Fraga, Tea Bašić, Joachim Audet, Anne Deininger, Georgina BusstStefano Fenoglio, Núria Catalán, Eyto E de, Francesca Pilotto, Jordi René Mor, Juliana Monteiro, David Fletcher, Christian Noss, Miriam Colls, Magdalena Nagler, Liu Liu, Ferran Romero, Ferran Romero, Nina Pansch, José L.J. Ledesma, Josephine Pegg, Marcus Klaus, Anna Freixa, Ortega S Herrero, Clara Mendoza-Lera, Adam Bednařík, Jérémy A. Fonvielle, Peter J. Gilbert, Lyubomir A. Kenderov, Martin Rulík, Pascal Bodmer

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Globally, inland waters emit over 2 Pg of carbon per year as carbon dioxide, of which the majority originates from streams and rivers. Despite the global significance of fluvial carbon dioxide emissions, little is known about their diel dynamics. Here we present a large-scale assessment of day- and night-time carbon dioxide fluxes at the water-air interface across 34 European streams. We directly measured fluxes four times between October 2016 and July 2017 using drifting chambers. Median fluxes are 1.4 and 2.1 mmol m<jats:sup>−2</jats:sup> h<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> at midday and midnight, respectively, with night fluxes exceeding those during the day by 39%. We attribute diel carbon dioxide flux variability mainly to changes in the water partial pressure of carbon dioxide. However, no consistent drivers could be identified across sites. Our findings highlight widespread day-night changes in fluvial carbon dioxide fluxes and suggest that the time of day greatly influences measured carbon dioxide fluxes across European streams.</jats:p>
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages0
JournalCommunications Earth &amp; Environment
Volume2
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Jun 2021

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    Attermeyer, K., Casas-Ruiz, J., Fuss, T., Pastor, A., Cauvy-Fraunié, S., Sheath, D., Nydahl, A., Doretto, A., Portela, A., Doyle, B., Simov, N., Gutmann Roberts, C., Niedrist, G., Timoner, X., Evtimova, V., Barral-Fraga, L., Bašić, T., Audet, J., Deininger, A. & Busst, G. & 26 others, Fenoglio, S., Catalán, N., de, E. E., Pilotto, F., Mor, J.-R., Monteiro, J., Fletcher, D., Noss, C., Colls, M., Nagler, M., Liu, L., Romero, G.-Q. C., Romero, F., Pansch, N., Ledesma, J., Pegg, J., Klaus, M., Freixa, A., Herrero, O. S., Mendoza-Lera, C., Bednařík, A., Fonvielle, J., Gilbert, P., Kenderov, L., Rulík, M. & Bodmer, P., 22 Mar 2021.

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