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Budgeting sinks and sources of CO2 in the coastal ocean: Diversity of ecosystems counts
Borges, Alberto; Delille, Bruno; Frankignoulle, Michel
2005In Geophysical Research Letters, 32 (14), p. 1-4
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Abstract :
[en] Air-water CO2 fluxes were up-scaled to take into account the latitudinal and ecosystem diversity of the coastal ocean, based on an exhaustive literature survey. Marginal seas at high and temperate latitudes act as sinks of CO2 from the atmosphere, in contrast to subtropical and tropical marginal seas that act as sources of CO2 to the atmosphere. Overall, marginal seas act as a strong sink of CO2 of about -0.45 Pg C yr(-1). This sink could be almost fully compensated by the emission of CO2 from the ensemble of near-shore coastal ecosystems of about 0.40 Pg C yr(-1). Although this value is subject to large uncertainty, it stresses the importance of the diversity of ecosystems, in particular near-shore systems, when integrating CO2 fluxes at global scale in the coastal ocean.
Research center :
FOCUS - Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch - ULiège
Disciplines :
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Borges, Alberto  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Océanographie chimique
Delille, Bruno  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Océanographie chimique
Frankignoulle, Michel
Language :
English
Title :
Budgeting sinks and sources of CO2 in the coastal ocean: Diversity of ecosystems counts
Publication date :
16 July 2005
Journal title :
Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN :
0094-8276
eISSN :
1944-8007
Publisher :
Amer Geophysical Union, Washington, United States - Washington
Volume :
32
Issue :
14
Pages :
1-4
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
EU IP CARBOOCEAN - Belcanto- Canopy
Funders :
DG RDT - Commission Européenne. Direction Générale de la Recherche et de l'Innovation [BE]
BELSPO - SPP Politique scientifique - Service Public Fédéral de Programmation Politique scientifique
Commentary :
An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2005 American Geophysical Union.”
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