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Large difference in carbon emission – burial balances between boreal and arctic lakes

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, September 2015
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Title
Large difference in carbon emission – burial balances between boreal and arctic lakes
Published in
Scientific Reports, September 2015
DOI 10.1038/srep14248
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Authors

E. J. Lundin, J. Klaminder, D. Bastviken, C. Olid, S. V. Hansson, J. Karlsson

Abstract

Lakes play an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle by burying C in sediments and emitting CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere. The strengths and control of these fundamentally different pathways are therefore of interest when assessing the continental C balance and its response to environmental change. In this study, based on new high-resolution estimates in combination with literature data, we show that annual emission:burial ratios are generally ten times higher in boreal compared to subarctic - arctic lakes. These results suggest major differences in lake C cycling between biomes, as lakes in warmer boreal regions emit more and store relatively less C than lakes in colder arctic regions. Such effects are of major importance for understanding climatic feedbacks on the continental C sink - source function at high latitudes. If predictions of global warming and northward expansion of the boreal biome are correct, it is likely that increasing C emissions from high latitude lakes will partly counteract the presumed increasing terrestrial C sink capacity at high latitudes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Unknown 81 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 30%
Researcher 16 19%
Student > Master 14 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 6%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 8 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 30 36%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 19 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 13%
Engineering 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 16 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2015.
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#1,770,614
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#16,265
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#25,946
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#286
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