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Sanders, Luciana M.Southern Cross Univ, Australia
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Historic carbon burial spike in an Amazon floodplain lake linked to riparian deforestation near Santarem, Brazil
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2018-01-22
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COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH,2018
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:liu-144879
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-447-2018DOI
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Language:English
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Funding Agencies|APA; IPRS; Brazilian Research Council (CNPq - "Programa Universal" and "Bolsa de Produtividade"); Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ - "Programa Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado"); Australian Research Council [DE160100443]
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Forests along the Amazon Basin produce significant quantities of organic material, a portion of which is deposited in floodplain lakes. Deforestation in the watershed may then have potentially important effects on the carbon fluxes. In this study, a sediment core was extracted from an Amazon floodplain lake to examine the relationship between carbon burial and changing land cover and land use. Historical records from the 1930s and satellite data from the 1970s were used to calculate deforestation rates between 1930 to 1970 and 1970 to 2010 in four zones with different distances from the margins of the lake and its tributaries (100, 500, 1000 and 6000m buffers). A sediment accumulation rate of similar to 4 mmyr(-1) for the previous similar to 120 years was determined from the Pu240+239 signatures and the excess Pb-210 method. The carbon burial rates ranged between 85 and 298 gCm(-2) yr(-1), with pulses of high carbon burial in the 1950s, originating from the forest vegetation as indicated by delta C-13 and delta N-15 signatures. Our results revealed a potentially important spatial dependence of the organic carbon (OC) burial in Amazon lacustrine sediments in relation to deforestation rates in the catchment. These deforestation rates were more intense in the riparian vegetation (100m buffer) during the period 1930 to 1970 and the larger open water areas (500, 1000 and 6000m buffer) during 1970 to 2010. The continued removal of vegetation from the interior of the forest was not related to the peak of OC burial in the lake, but only the riparian deforestation which peaked during the 1950s. Therefore, this supports the conservation priority of riparian forests as an important management practice for Amazon flooded areas. Our findings suggest the importance of abrupt and temporary events in which some of the biomass released by deforestation, especially restricted to areas along open water edges, might reach the depositional environments in the floodplain of the Amazon Basin.
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Taffs, KathrynSouthern Cross Univ, Australia
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Stokes, DebraSouthern Cross Univ, Australia
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Sanders, Christian J.Southern Cross Univ, Australia
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Enrich Prast, AlexLinköpings universitet,Tema Miljöförändring,Filosofiska fakulteten(Swepub:liu)aleen07
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Amora, Leonardo NogueiraUniv Fed Fluminense, Brazil
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Marotta, HumbertoUniv Fed Fluminense, Brazil
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Southern Cross Univ, AustraliaTema Miljöförändring
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In:Biogeosciences: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH15:2, s. 447-4551726-41701726-4189
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