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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Catchment vegetation and erosion controlled soil carbon cycling in south-eastern Australia during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles |
Author: | Francke, A. Dosseto, A. Forbes, M. Cadd, H. Short, J. Sherborne-Higgins, B. Constantine, M. Tyler, J. Tibby, J. Marx, S.K. Dodson, J. Mooney, S. Cohen, T.J. |
Citation: | Global and Planetary Change, 2022; 217:1-16 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
ISSN: | 0921-8181 1872-6364 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alexander Francke, Anthony Dosseto, Matthew Forbes, Haidee Cadd, Julia Short, Bryce Sherborne-Higgins, Mark Constantine, Jon Tyler, John Tibby, Samuel K. Marx, John Dodson, Scott Mooney, Timothy J. Cohen |
Abstract: | Vegetation structure in vast semi-arid to temperate continental land masses, such as Australia, plays a considerable role in global terrestrial carbon sequestration. However, whether soil carbon from these regions is a net atmospheric carbon source or sink remains contentious, introducing large uncertainties on long-term storage of vegetation-sequestered carbon dioxide. We investigate the interplay between catchment erosion quantified using uranium isotopes, vegetation (pollen), catchment carbon cycling, wetland response (diatoms), and lake carbon accumulation on glacial-interglacial timescales in south-eastern Australia. The analyses are applied to sediments from Lake Couridjah, in the Sydney Basin during the last (133.5 ka to 107.6 ka) and current (17.8 cal ka BP to present day) glacial-interglacial transitions. Robust phase-relationships between catchment erosion, vegetation composition and carbon cycling during both glacial-interglacial periods were revealed by statistical analyses. Vegetation structure had a direct control on catchment erosion, and, thus, on soil organic carbon (SOC) erosion in the catchment. Overall wetter and warmer peak interglacial conditions promoted the expansion of a canopy and mid-storey vegetation cover reducing catchment erosion, while simultaneously increasing SOC storage, catchment and lake primary productivity, and lake carbon storage. The results suggest increased terrestrial carbon sequestration in temperate Australian landscapes in warmer and wetter climates. |
Keywords: | Quaternary; Australia; Palaeoclimate; Palaeoenvironment; Landscape; Erosion and carbon cycling; Carbon Sequestration |
Rights: | © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103922 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE170100015 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100524 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103922 |
Appears in Collections: | Geology & Geophysics publications |
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