Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Substantial decrease in CO2 emissions from Chinese inland waters due to global change

  • Lishan Ran,
  • David E. Butman,
  • Tom J. Battin,
  • Xiankun Yang,
  • Mingyang Tian,
  • Clément Duvert,
  • Jens Hartmann,
  • Naomi Geeraert,
  • Shaoda Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21926-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Inland waters emit greenhouse gases, but robust estimations are hampered by a dearth of spatio-temporally resolved measurements. Here the authors present annual fluxes of CO2 from Chinese inland waters over the past several decades, showing that emission fluxes have significantly declined since the 80s.