Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans

Matthew W. Jones; Alysha I. Coppola; Cristina Santín; Thorsten Dittmar; Rudolf Jaffé; Stefan H. Doerr; Timothy A. Quine

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16576-z

Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans

Matthew W. Jones,
Alysha I. Coppola,
Cristina Santín,
Thorsten Dittmar,
Rudolf Jaffé,
Stefan H. Doerr,
Timothy A. Quine

Affiliations

Matthew W. Jones: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Alysha I. Coppola: Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Cristina Santín: Geography Department, College of Science, Swansea University
Thorsten Dittmar: Research Group for Marine Geochemistry (ICBM-MPI Bridging Group), Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg
Rudolf Jaffé: Southeast Environmental Research Center and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University
Stefan H. Doerr: Geography Department, College of Science, Swansea University
Timothy A. Quine: Geography Department, College of Life and Environmental Science, University of Exeter

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16576-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Black carbon is a recalcitrant and unique form of organic carbon formed from incomplete combustion. Here the authors use global sampling to reduce uncertainty in the flux of terrestrial black carbon to the oceans, predicting that 34% of black carbon produced by fires has an oceanic fate.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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