Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Eutrophication will increase methane emissions from lakes and impoundments during the 21st century

  • Jake J. Beaulieu,
  • Tonya DelSontro,
  • John A. Downing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09100-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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.Agricultural intensification and a growing human population are likely to increase the eutrophication of lakes and impoundments over the next century. Here, the authors show that this enhanced eutrophication will substantially increase emissions of methane (+ 30–90%), a potent greenhouse gas, from these systems over the next century.