High carbon dioxide emissions from Australian estuaries driven by geomorphology and climate.

Autor: Yeo JZ; Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, East Lismore, NSW, 2480, Australia. jacob.yeo@scu.edu.au., Rosentreter JA; Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, East Lismore, NSW, 2480, Australia., Oakes JM; Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, East Lismore, NSW, 2480, Australia., Schulz KG; Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, East Lismore, NSW, 2480, Australia., Eyre BD; Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, East Lismore, NSW, 2480, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2024 May 10; Vol. 15 (1), pp. 3967. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 10.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48178-4
Abstrakt: Estuaries play an important role in connecting the global carbon cycle across the land-to-ocean continuum, but little is known about Australia's contribution to global CO 2 emissions. Here we present an Australia-wide assessment, based on CO 2 concentrations for 47 estuaries upscaled to 971 assessed Australian estuaries. We estimate total mean (±SE) estuary CO 2 emissions of 8.67 ± 0.54 Tg CO 2 -C yr -1 , with tidal systems, lagoons, and small deltas contributing 94.4%, 3.1%, and 2.5%, respectively. Although higher disturbance increased water-air CO 2 fluxes, its effect on total Australian estuarine CO 2 emissions was small due to the large surface areas of low and moderately disturbed tidal systems. Mean water-air CO 2 fluxes from Australian small deltas and tidal systems were higher than from global estuaries because of the dominance of macrotidal subtropical and tropical systems in Australia, which have higher emissions due to lateral inputs. We suggest that global estuarine CO 2 emissions should be upscaled based on geomorphology, but should also consider land-use disturbance, and climate.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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