By burying carbon in their sediments, lakes serve as important regional carbon stores. In aggregate, lakes play a significant role in the global carbon budget. On an annual basis, they bury 40% as ...

Combining eddy covariance (EC) measurements of lake-atmosphere net ecosystem CO₂ exchange with measurements of fluvial C fluxes (dissolved organic C ... S., B. Soderback, S. Karlsson, E. Andersson, ...

I combine remote sensing derived estimates of vegetation cover, ground surveys of tree growth/mortality, ecosystem models, and emissions inventories to produce a comprehensive carbon budget for a ...

Leakage of carbon from land to rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal regions revealed Date: June 10, 2013 Source: University of Exeter Summary: When carbon is emitted by human activities into the ...

What powers life? In most ecosystems, sunlight is absorbed and converted into usable forms of energy via photosynthesis. These usable forms of energy are carbon-based. A primary example of this ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An international report on the Great Lakes shows that two of the five Great Lakes have a strong ecosystem, while three others have notable room for improvement.

A paper published in the Science China Earth Sciences analyzes global land-water-air interface carbon migration processes as well as carbon budget changes and associated impact mechanisms. It also ...

Lakes continuously absorb CO 2 from the atmosphere through the growth of phytoplankton. Microbes convert the carbon, fixed by photosynthesis, into methane when they process biomass. That way, carbon ...

Amid ongoing concerns and curiosity surrounding carbon capture, Southeastern Louisiana University has deployed several buoys to monitor the Lake Maurepas ecosystem as Air Products continues its ...

The 2022 State of the Great Lakes shows that while the overall ecosystem is "fair," improvement is needed across each individual lake. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...