River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world

TJ Battin, R Lauerwald, ES Bernhardt, E Bertuzzo… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
River networks represent the largest biogeochemical nexus between the continents, ocean
and atmosphere. Our current understanding of the role of rivers in the global carbon cycle …

Linkages between flow regime, biota, and ecosystem processes: Implications for river restoration

M Palmer, A Ruhi - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Early civilizations developed around seasonal river floodplains, and the
natural rhythm of rivers remains critical to humans today. We use streams and rivers to meet …

Sources of dissolved carbon in large rivers: insights from coupled 13C-14C in the upper Changjiang (Yangtze) River

J Zhong, A Galy, S Zolkos, S Xu, CQ Liu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Export of dissolved carbon from rivers connects terrestrial and oceanic carbon cycling, and
represents a key component of global carbon budgets. In this study, we measured the …

Integrating hydrology and biogeochemistry across frozen landscapes

JE Vonk, SE Tank, MA Walvoord - Nature Communications, 2019 - nature.com
Research has traditionally focused on atmospheric release of carbon from thawing
permafrost, yet overlooked waterborne release pathways likely contribute significantly …

Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach

SE Tank, JE Vonk, MA Walvoord… - Permafrost and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost thaw has been widely observed to alter the biogeochemistry of recipient aquatic
ecosystems. However, research from various regions has shown considerable variation in …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature controls production but hydrology regulates export of dissolved organic carbon at the catchment scale

H Wen, J Perdrial, BW Abbott, S Bernal… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Lateral carbon flux through river networks is an important and poorly understood component
of the global carbon budget. This work investigates how temperature and hydrology control …

From soils to streams: Connecting terrestrial carbon transformation, chemical weathering, and solute export across hydrological regimes

H Wen, PL Sullivan, SA Billings, H Ajami… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil biota generates carbon that exports vertically to the atmosphere (CO2) and transports
laterally to streams and rivers (dissolved organic and inorganic carbon, DOC and DIC) …

Emerging dominance of summer rainfall driving High Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity

CR Beel, JK Heslop, JF Orwin, MA Pope… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hydrological transformations induced by climate warming are causing Arctic annual fluvial
energy to shift from skewed (snowmelt-dominated) to multimodal (snowmelt-and rainfall …

Landscape process domains drive patterns of CO2 evasion from river networks

G Rocher‐Ros, RA Sponseller… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Streams are important emitters of CO2 but extreme spatial variability in their physical
properties can make upscaling very uncertain. Here, we determined critical drivers of stream …

Pan‐Arctic riverine dissolved organic matter: Synchronous molecular stability, shifting sources and subsidies

MI Behnke, JW McClelland, SE Tank… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is dramatically altering Arctic ecosystems, leading to shifts in the sources,
composition, and eventual fate of riverine dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the Arctic …