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Article Is Available Online to Coupling Biogeochemical Cycles Between Land, Oceans and At- at Doi:10.5194/Bg-12-2431-2015-Supplement Biogeosciences, 12, 2431–2453, 2015 www.biogeosciences.net/12/2431/2015/ doi:10.5194/bg-12-2431-2015 © Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Dynamics of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4,N2O) along the Zambezi River and major tributaries, and their importance in the riverine carbon budget C. R. Teodoru1, F. C. Nyoni2, A. V. Borges3, F. Darchambeau3, I. Nyambe2, and S. Bouillon1 1KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium 2University of Zambia, Integrated Water Research Management Centre, Lusaka, Zambia 3University of Liège, Chemical Oceanography Unit, Liège, Belgium Correspondence to: C. R. Teodoru ([email protected]) Received: 22 October 2014 – Published in Biogeosciences Discuss.: 27 November 2014 Revised: 12 March 2015 – Accepted: 2 April 2015 – Published: 24 April 2015 Abstract. Spanning over 3000 km in length and with a catch- angwa and Mazoe rivers. The interannual variability in the 2 ment of approximately 1.4 million km , the Zambezi River is Zambezi River was relatively large for both CO2 and CH4, the fourth largest river in Africa and the largest flowing into and significantly higher concentrations (up to 2-fold) were the Indian Ocean from the African continent. We present data measured during wet seasons compared to the dry season. In- on greenhouse gas (GHG: carbon dioxide (CO2/, methane terannual variability of N2O was less pronounced, but higher (CH4/, and nitrous oxide (N2O)) concentrations and fluxes, values were generally found during the dry season. Overall, as well as data that allow for characterization of sources both concentrations and fluxes of CO2 and CH4 were well and dynamics of carbon pools collected along the Zambezi below the median/average values for tropical rivers, streams River, reservoirs and several of its tributaries during 2012 and reservoirs reported previously in the literature and used and 2013 and over two climatic seasons (dry and wet) to con- for global extrapolations. A first-order mass balance suggests strain the interannual variability, seasonality and spatial het- that carbon (C) transport to the ocean represents the ma- erogeneity along the aquatic continuum. All GHG concen- jor component (59 %) of the budget (largely in the form of trations showed high spatial variability (coefficient of varia- dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC), while 38 % of the total C tion: 1.01 for CO2, 2.65 for CH4 and 0.21 for N2O). Over- yield is annually emitted into the atmosphere, mostly as CO2 all, there was no unidirectional pattern along the river stretch (98 %), and 3 % is removed by sedimentation in reservoirs. (i.e., decrease or increase towards the ocean), as the spatial heterogeneity of GHGs appeared to be determined mainly by the connectivity with floodplains and wetlands as well as the presence of man-made structures (reservoirs) and natu- 1 Introduction ral barriers (waterfalls, rapids). Highest CO2 and CH4 con- centrations in the main channel were found downstream of Contrary to the earlier perception of inland waters as simple extensive floodplains/wetlands. Undersaturated CO2 condi- pipelines passively transporting significant amounts of both tions, in contrast, were characteristic of the surface waters organic and inorganic carbon (C) to the ocean, it is increas- of the two large reservoirs along the Zambezi mainstem. ingly recognized that freshwater ecosystems are capable of N2O concentrations showed the opposite pattern, being low- processing large quantities of C derived from the surround- est downstream of the floodplains and highest in reservoirs. ing landscape, being therefore active components of global Among tributaries, highest concentrations of both CO2 and C cycling. Global figures based on recent data compilations CH4 were measured in the Shire River, whereas low values suggest that the amount of C processed and emitted into the were characteristic of more turbid systems such as the Lu- atmosphere from inland waters offsets the overall C transport to the global ocean (Cole et al., 2007; Tranvik et al., 2009; Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 2432 C. R. Teodoru et al.: Dynamics of greenhouse gases along the Zambezi River Aufdenkampe et al., 2011; Bastviken et al., 2011; Butman Constraining the overall importance of rivers in the global and Raymond, 2011; Raymond et al., 2013). This amount of C budget therefore requires an improved understanding of C terrestrial C processed in rivers, lakes and reservoirs reaches cycling in other tropical and subtropical regions. approximately half the magnitude of the oceanic CO2 sink As part of a broader study on catchment-scale biogeo- (IPCC, 2013), a value that is similar to or even higher in mag- chemistry of African rivers, the present study examines the nitude than C uptake by terrestrial ecosystem (Aufdenkampe spatiotemporal dynamics of CO2, CH4 and N2O concentra- et al., 2011; IPCC, 2013). Despite large uncertainties related tions and fluxes in the Zambezi River basin based on three to these global estimates, it has become evident that freshwa- sampling campaigns extended over two climatic seasons (wet ter ecosystems play a vital role in C budgets, disproportional 2012, wet 2013 and dry 2013). The study quantifies the mag- to their areal extent (Cole et al., 2007). Quantifying the role nitude of CO2 and CH4 concentrations and fluxes, identifies of freshwater ecosystems as C sources and sinks and under- the main C sources and the controlling factors responsible standing the link between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem for the observed patterns, and examines hotspots for GHG as well as the underlying biogeochemical processes are there- exchange with the atmosphere. Finally, we make a first at- fore fundamental for quantitative estimates of the impact of tempt at a C mass balance for the Zambezi River over the land-use-related changes in C dynamics and for improving study period by budgeting emissions, sinks and transport of estimates of ecosystem C budgets. C. Although rivers represent key elements of freshwater ecosystems, their role in global or regional C budgets is still unclear. Resulting from groundwater inputs of dissolved in- 2 Materials and methods organic C (DIC) and from the mineralization of terrestrial organic C (OC; Battin et al., 2009), supersaturation in CO2 2.1 The Zambezi River – general characteristics has been reported for large rivers in boreal, temperate and tropical areas (Cole and Caraco, 2001; Richey et al., 2002; The Zambezi River is the fourth largest river in Africa in Aufdenkampe et al., 2011; Raymond et al., 2013; Bouillon terms of discharge after the Congo, Nile and Niger, and the et al., 2014; Abril et al., 2014, 2015). Studies of CO2 dy- largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from the African con- namics in low-order rivers in temperate and boreal regions tinent. The river originates in northwest Zambia (11.370◦ S, have also shown that these systems are extremely dynamic in 024.308◦ E; 1450 m a.s.l.) and flows southeast over 3000 km terms of DIC (Guasch et al., 1998; Worrall et al., 2005; Wal- before it discharges into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique dron et al., 2007) and generally highly supersaturated in CO2 (Fig. 1). Based on distinct geomorphological characteristics, (Kling et al., 1991; Hope et al., 2001; Finlay, 2003; Teodoru the Zambezi River is divided into three major segments: (i) et al., 2009). Controlled by several biogeochemical processes the upper Zambezi from the headwaters to Victoria Falls; (i.e., organic matter oxidation, photosynthesis and respira- (ii) the middle Zambezi, from Victoria Falls to the edge of tion, and exchange with atmosphere) and characterized by the Mozambique coastal plain (below Cahora Bassa Gorge); distinct isotopic signature, DIC stable isotopes (δ13C-DIC) and (iii) the lower Zambezi, the stretch traversing the coastal represent a powerful tool which can be used to distinguish plain down to the Indian Ocean (Wellington, 1955; Moore between different riverine DIC sources (i.e., atmospheric/soil et al., 2007). The upper reaches of the river are incised into CO2 or carbonate dissolution), to trace the DIC transport upper Precambrian crystalline basement rocks composed to the ocean and to assess the carbon transformation in the of metamorphosed sediments including shale, dolomite and river itself. Data on tropical rivers and streams are partic- quartzite. Further downstream, the Zambezi widens into the ularly scarce compared to other regions, despite their high Barotse Floodplain, a very low gradient stretch that traverses contribution (more than half) to the global freshwater dis- unconsolidated sands, known as the Kalahari Sand. Down- charge to the ocean and their particularly high importance in stream of the Barotse Floodplain, the gradient of the Zam- terms of riverine transport of sediments and C (Ludwig et bezi steepens and the river begins to incise into Karoo-age al., 1996; Schlünz and Schneider, 2000) and the suggested basalts and sediments (sandstone, shale, limestone) that form higher areal CO2 outgassing rates than temperate or boreal the sub-Kalahari bedrock, creating a series of rapids and falls rivers (Aufdenkampe et al., 2011). While our understanding with Victoria Falls (world’s second largest: 1708 m width, of C dynamics in tropical regions comes mostly from stud- 108 m height) marking the edge of the upper Zambezi stretch ies of the Amazon River basin, to date only a handful of (Moor et al., 2007). The middle Zambezi is characterized studies explored the biogeochemical functioning
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