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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming

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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15347
Abstract

The damming of rivers represents one of the most far-reaching human modifications of the flows of water and associated matter from land to sea. Dam reservoirs are hotspots of sediment accumulation, primary productivity (P) and carbon mineralization (R) along the river continuum. Here we show that for the period 1970-2030, global carbon mineralization in reservoirs exceeds carbon fixation (P

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