African river basins: catchment-scale carbon fluxes and transformations (AFRIVAL). KU Leuven
This project wishes to fundamentally improve our understanding of the role of tropical freshwater ecosystems in carbon (C) cycling on the catchment scale. It uses an unprecedented combination of state-of-the-art proxies (e.g., stable isotope, 14C and biomarker signatures, field measurements of relevant biogeochemical processes). We focus on tropical systems since there is a striking lack of data on such systems, even though riverine C transport ...