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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 Busst
  • Stefano 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
*Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Vienna
  • Uppsala University
  • WasserCluster Lunz
  • Catalan Institute for Water Research
  • University of Girona
  • University of Innsbruck
  • Aarhus University
  • INRAE
  • Bournemouth University
  • University of Geneva
  • ALPSTREAM – Alpine Stream Research Center
  • University of Eastern Piedmont
  • University of Porto
  • Dundalk Institute of Technology
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Centre for the Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • Norwegian Institute for Water Research
  • Umeå University
  • University of Turin
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • United States Geological Survey
  • University of Barcelona
  • University of Lisbon
  • University of Koblenz-Landau
  • Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
  • Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • National Research Foundation
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Palacký University Olomouc
  • University of the Highlands and Islands
  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
  • Université du Québec à Montréal

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Abstract

<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
JournalCommunications Earth and Environment
Volume2
Issue number1
Early online date10 Jun 2021
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Jun 2021

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  • Carbon dioxide fluxes increase from day to night across European streams

    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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