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Long-term perspectives on terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycling from palaeolimnology

Long-term perspectives on terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycling from palaeolimnology
Long-term perspectives on terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycling from palaeolimnology
Lakes are active processors and collectors of carbon (C) and thus recognized as quantitatively important within the terrestrial C cycle. Better integration of palaeolimnology (lake sediment core analyses) with limnological or modelling approaches has the potential to enhance understanding of lacustrine C processing and sequestration. Palaeolimnology simultaneously assimilates materials from across lake habitats, terrestrial watersheds and airsheds to provide a uniquely broad overview of the terrestrial-atmospheric-aquatic linkages across spatial scales. The examination of past changes over decadal-millenial timescales via palaeolimnology can inform understanding and prediction of future changes in C cycling. With a particular, but not exclusive, focus on northern latitudes we examine the methodological approaches of palaeolimnology, focusing on how relatively standard and well tested techniques might be applied to address questions of relevance to the C cycle. We consider how palaeolimnology, limnology and sedimentation studies might be linked to provide more quantitative and holistic estimates lake C cycling. Finally, we use palaeolimnological examples to consider how changes such as terrestrial vegetation cover, permafrost thaw, the formation of new lakes and reservoirs, hydrological modification of inorganic C processing, land use change, soil erosion and disruption to global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles might influence lake C cycling.
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Edwards, Mary E.
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Langdon, Peter G.
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McGowan, Suzanne, Anderson, N. John, Edwards, Mary E., Langdon, Peter G., Vivienne, Vivienne J., Turner, Simon, van Hardenbroek, Maarten, Whiteford, Erika and Wiik, Emma (2016) Long-term perspectives on terrestrial and aquatic carbon cycling from palaeolimnology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 3 (2), 211-234. (doi:10.1002/wat2.1130).

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Lakes are active processors and collectors of carbon (C) and thus recognized as quantitatively important within the terrestrial C cycle. Better integration of palaeolimnology (lake sediment core analyses) with limnological or modelling approaches has the potential to enhance understanding of lacustrine C processing and sequestration. Palaeolimnology simultaneously assimilates materials from across lake habitats, terrestrial watersheds and airsheds to provide a uniquely broad overview of the terrestrial-atmospheric-aquatic linkages across spatial scales. The examination of past changes over decadal-millenial timescales via palaeolimnology can inform understanding and prediction of future changes in C cycling. With a particular, but not exclusive, focus on northern latitudes we examine the methodological approaches of palaeolimnology, focusing on how relatively standard and well tested techniques might be applied to address questions of relevance to the C cycle. We consider how palaeolimnology, limnology and sedimentation studies might be linked to provide more quantitative and holistic estimates lake C cycling. Finally, we use palaeolimnological examples to consider how changes such as terrestrial vegetation cover, permafrost thaw, the formation of new lakes and reservoirs, hydrological modification of inorganic C processing, land use change, soil erosion and disruption to global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles might influence lake C cycling.

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Accepted/In Press date: 13 November 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: November 2015
Published date: March 2016
Organisations: Geography & Environment

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Local EPrints ID: 384389
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/384389
PURE UUID: df52df95-6abd-43c3-96c4-2c4e37104a0d
ORCID for Mary E. Edwards: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3490-6682
ORCID for Peter G. Langdon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2724-2643

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Date deposited: 25 Nov 2015 11:49
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:13

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Author: Suzanne McGowan
Author: N. John Anderson
Author: Mary E. Edwards ORCID iD
Author: Vivienne J. Vivienne
Author: Simon Turner
Author: Maarten van Hardenbroek
Author: Erika Whiteford
Author: Emma Wiik

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