Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Carbon emission from Western Siberian inland waters

  • Jan Karlsson,
  • Svetlana Serikova,
  • Sergey N. Vorobyev,
  • Gerard Rocher-Ros,
  • Blaize Denfeld,
  • Oleg S. Pokrovsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21054-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Rivers and lakes are thought to be a major conduit of loss for the massive amounts of carbon locked away in high-latitude systems, but such losses are poorly constrained. Here the authors quantify carbon emissions from rivers and lakes across Western Siberia, finding that emissions are high and exceed carbon export to the Arctic Ocean.