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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Terrestrial and fluvial carbon fluxes in a tropical watershed: Nyong basin, Cameroon
Chemical Geology, Volume 265, No. 3-4, Year 2009
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The Nyong watershed, with an area of 27 800 km2 and a mean annual discharge of 390 m3 s- 1, is the second largest river in Cameroon. The Nyong watershed serves as an outstanding study area for the examination of carbon fluxes in humid tropical environments because of its limited anthropogenic impact and homogeneous silicate bedrock. Between April 2005 and April 2007, we sampled water at seven stations, from the small watershed of the Mengong (0.6 km2) to the Nyong at Edea (24 500 km2), and monitored temperature, pH, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) contents, as well as the isotopic composition of DIC (δ13CDIC) and DOC (δ13CDOC). We estimated terrestrial net ecosystem productivity in the Nyong River watershed and measured fluvial fluxes of carbon to the ocean and the atmosphere. The Nyong River basin sequesters significant amounts of carbon on an annual basis: ~ 7 920 000 t C year- 1 (300 g C m- 2 year- 1). The combined dissolved organic, dissolved inorganic and atmospheric fluxes of carbon from the Nyong River only export 3% of this flux from the basin on an annual basis. This includes a minimum CO2 outgassing of 1487 g C m- 2 year- 1, comparable to 115% of the annual flux of DOC and four times greater than the flux of DIC. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Brunet, F.
Canada, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
France, Toulouse
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-pyrénées
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Dubois, Kristal
Canada, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Veizer, Ján
Canada, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Nkoue Ndongo, G. R.
France, Toulouse
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-pyrénées
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Cameroon, Yaounde
Université de Yaoundé I
Ndam-Ngoupayou, Jules Rémy
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Boeglin, Jean Loup
France, Toulouse
Université Toulouse Iii - Paul Sabatier
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
France, Toulouse
Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
Probst, Jean Luc
France, Toulouse
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-pyrénées
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Statistics
Citations: 83
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.05.020
ISSN:
00092541
Research Areas
Environmental
Study Locations
Cameroon