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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2008

Nitrous oxide emissions from tropical hydroelectric reservoirs

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We report original data on nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from two tropical reservoirs, their rivers below the dam, and from natural aquatic ecosystems and rainforest soils in French Guiana and Panama. We also review published N2O fluxes from other tropical reservoirs and natural environments. We show that: (1) N2O emissions from tropical reservoirs occur mainly at the reservoir surface, fluxes downstream of dams being minor; (2) Because pre-flooding natural N2O fluxes are significant, the net N2O emissions from reservoirs are less than ∼50-70% of gross N2O emissions; (3) the contribution of N2O to the global warming potential of emissions from reservoirs could be significant for gross emissions, but less than 10% for net emissions, disregarding N2O degassing emissions.
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Frédéric Guérin, Gwenaël Abril, Alain Tremblay, Robert Delmas. Nitrous oxide emissions from tropical hydroelectric reservoirs. Geophysical Research Letters, 2008, 35 (6), pp.L06404. ⟨10.1029/2007GL033057⟩. ⟨hal-00961627⟩
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