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SUBMITTER: Calamita E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8237613 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Calamita Elisa E Siviglia Annunziato A Gettel Gretchen M GM Franca Mário J MJ Winton R Scott RS Teodoru Cristian R CR Schmid Martin M Wehrli Bernhard B
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20210601 25
Recent studies show that tropical hydroelectric reservoirs may be responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, yet emissions from the surface of released water downstream of the dam are poorly characterized if not neglected entirely from most assessments. We found that carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emission downstream of Kariba Dam (southern Africa) varied widely over different timescales and that accounting for downstream emissions and their fluctuations is critical ...[more]