Ideas and perspectives: Carbon leaks from flooded land: do we need to replumb the inland water active pipe?

Abril, Gwenaël; Borges, Alberto V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-769-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-769-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-769-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 3

Ideas and perspectives

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12 Feb 2019

Ideas and perspectives |

| 12 Feb 2019

Ideas and perspectives: Carbon leaks from flooded land: do we need to replumb the inland water active pipe?

Gwenaël Abril and Alberto V. Borges

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Final revised paper (published on 12 Feb 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 30 May 2018)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'responses to Reviewer #1', Gwenaël Abril, 19 Nov 2018
RC2: 'review of Abril and Borges', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Responses to reviewer #2', Gwenaël Abril, 19 Nov 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (03 Dec 2018) by Tom J. Battin

AR by Gwenaël Abril on behalf of the Authors (29 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Jan 2019) by Tom J. Battin

Short summary

Based on classical concepts in ecology, and a literature survey, we highlight the importance of flooded land as a preferential source of atmospheric carbon to aquatic systems at the global scale. Studies in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems could be reconciled by considering the occurrence of an efficient wetland CO₂ pump to river systems. New methodological approaches coupling hydrology and ecology are also necessary to improve scientific knowledge on carbon fluxes at the land–water interface.