Het belang van piekdebieten en overstromingsvlakteprocessen voor de koolstofdynamiek van grote tropische rivieren. KU Leuven
Afdeling Geografie en Toerisme, Afdeling Geologie, Kern- en Stralingsfysica (IKS), Afdeling Bodem- en Waterbeheer
Recent research has highlighted the importance of rivers within the global carbon cycle. Rivers not only transport considerable amounts of carbon to the ocean thereby connecting the terrestrial and oceanic component of the carbon cycle. Rivers can also be looked as important reactors as a large fraction of the carbon that enters the fluvial system does not reach the ocean due to within-river mineralisation of floodplain deposition. Our ...