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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-953-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-953-2016
Research article
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09 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 09 Dec 2016

Deforestation in Amazonia impacts riverine carbon dynamics

Fanny Langerwisch, Ariane Walz, Anja Rammig, Britta Tietjen, Kirsten Thonicke, and Wolfgang Cramer

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Amazonia is heavily impacted by climate change and deforestation. During annual flooding terrigenous material is imported to the river, converted and finally exported to the ocean or the atmosphere. Changes in the vegetation alter therefore riverine carbon dynamics. Our results show that due to deforestation organic carbon amount will strongly decrease both in the river and exported to the ocean, while inorganic carbon amounts will increase, in the river as well as exported to the atmosphere.
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