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Comprehensive multiyear carbon budget of a temperate headwater stream
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Comprehensive multiyear carbon budget of a temperate headwater stream |
| Names |
Argerich, Alba
(creator) Haggerty, Roy (creator) Johnson, Sherri L. (creator) Wondzell, Steven M. (creator) Dosch, Nicholas (creator) Corson-Rikert, Hayley (creator) Ashkenas, Linda R. (creator) Pennington, Robert (creator) Thomas, Christoph K. (creator) |
| Date Issued | 2016-05 (iso8601) |
| Note | To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work. This is the publisher’s final pdf. The article is copyrighted by the American Geophysical Union and published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It can be found at: http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/agu/jgr/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%292169-8961/ |
| Abstract | Headwater streams comprise nearly 90% of the total length of perennial channels in global catchments. They mineralize organic carbon entering from terrestrial systems, evade terrestrial carbon dioxide (CO₂ ), and generate and remove carbon through in-stream primary production and respiration. Despite their importance, headwater streams are often neglected in global carbon budgets primarily because of a lack of available data. We measured these processes, in detail, over a 10 year period in a stream draining a 96 ha forested watershed in western Oregon, USA. This stream, which represents only 0.4% of the watershed area, exported 159 kg C ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹, similar to the global exports for large rivers. Stream export was dominated by downstream transport of dissolved inorganic carbon (63 kg C ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) and by evasion of CO₂ to the atmosphere (42 kg C ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹), leaving the remainder of 51 kg C ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ for downstream transport of organic carbon (17 kg C ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ and 34 kg C ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ in dissolved and particulate form, respectively) |
| Genre | Article |
| Topic | carbon |
| Identifier | Argerich, A., Haggerty, R., Johnson, S. L., Wondzell, S. M., Dosch, N., Corson‐Rikert, H., ... & Thomas, C. K. (2016). Comprehensive multiyear carbon budget of a temperate headwater stream. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121(5), 1306-1315. doi:10.1002/2015JG003050 |
