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Anthropogenic activities significantly increase annual greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from temperate headwater streams in Germany

Mwanake, Ricky Mwangada 1; Gettel, Gretchen Maria; Wangari, Elizabeth Gachibu 1; Glaser, Clarissa; Houska, Tobias; Breuer, Lutz; Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus 1; Kiese, Ralf ORCID iD icon 1
1 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung – Atmosphärische Umweltforschung (IMK-IFU), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Anthropogenic activities increase the contributions of inland waters to global greenhouse gas (GHG; CO$_2$, CH$_4$, and N$_2$O) budgets, yet the mechanisms driving these increases are still not well constrained. In this study, we quantified year-long GHG concentrations, fluxes, and water physico-chemical variables from 28 sites contrasted by land use across five headwater catchments in Germany. Based on linear mixed-effects models, we showed that land use was more significant than seasonality in controlling the intra-annual variability of the GHGs. Streams in agriculture-dominated catchments or with wastewater inflows had up to 10 times higher daily CO$_2$, CH$_4$, and N$_2$O emissions and were also more temporally variable (CV > 55 %) than forested streams. Our findings also suggested that nutrient, labile carbon, and dissolved GHG inputs from the agricultural and settlement areas may have supported these hotspots and hot-moments of fluvial GHG emissions. Overall, the annual emission from anthropogenic-influenced streams in CO$_2$ equivalents was up to 20 times higher (∼ 71 kg CO$_2$ m$^{−2}$ yr$^{−1}$) than from natural streams (∼ 3 kg CO$_2$ m$^{−2}$ yr$^{−1}$), with CO$_2$ accounting for up to 81 % of these annual emissions, while N$_2$O and CH$_4$ accounted for up to 18 % and 7 %, respectively. ... mehr


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000162622
Veröffentlicht am 29.09.2023
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.5194/bg-20-3395-2023
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Zitationen: 6
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung – Atmosphärische Umweltforschung (IMK-IFU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2023
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1726-4170, 1726-4189
KITopen-ID: 1000162622
HGF-Programm 12.11.22 (POF IV, LK 01) Managed ecosystems as sources and sinks of GHGs
Erschienen in Biogeosciences
Verlag Copernicus Publications
Band 20
Heft 16
Seiten 3395-3422
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Vorab online veröffentlicht am 17.08.2023
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