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ArticleScience advances2024

The competing controls of glaciers, precipitation, and vegetation on high-mountain fluvial sediment yields.

Dongfeng Li, Ting Zhang, Desmond E Walling, Stuart Lane, Bodo Bookhagen, Shang Tian, Irina Overeem, Jaia Syvitski, Albert J Kettner, Edward Park and 5 more

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15 authors.

Dongfeng LiKey Laboratory for Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0119-5797
Ting ZhangCenter for Agricultural Water Research in China, College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4975-0200
Desmond E WallingDepartment of Geography, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK.ORCID 0009-0008-5187-0758
Stuart LaneInstitute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6077-6076
Bodo BookhagenInstitute of Geosciences, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam 14476, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1323-6453
Shang TianKey Laboratory for Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0009-0006-9663-4447
Irina OvereemCSDMS, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8422-580X
Jaia SyvitskiCSDMS, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3116-6997
Albert J KettnerCSDMS, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7191-6521
Edward ParkNational Institute of Education, Earth Observatory of Singapore and Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-1299-1724
Michèle KoppesDepartment of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0580-2718
Rafael J P SchmittEnvironmental Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5394-3649
Weiling SunKey Laboratory for Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5064-0351
Jinren NiKey Laboratory for Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9114-8347
Todd A EhlersSchool of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9436-0303

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigating erosion and river sediment yield in high-mountain areas is crucial for understanding landscape and biogeochemical responses to environmental change. We compile data on contemporary fluvial suspended sediment yield (SSY) and 12 environmental proxies from 151 rivers in High Mountain Asia surrounding the Tibetan Plateau. We demonstrate that glaciers exert a first-order control on fluvial SSYs, with high precipitation nonlinearly amplifying their role, especially in high-glacier cover basins. We find a bidirectional response to vegetation's influence on SSY in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau and Tien Shan and identify that the two interacting factors of precipitation and vegetation cover explain 54% of the variability in SSY, reflecting the divergent roles of vegetation in promoting biogenic-weathering versus slope stabilization across bioclimatic zones. The competing interactions between glaciers, ecosystems, and climate in delivering suspended sediment have important implications for predicting carbon and nutrient exports and water quality in response to future climate change.

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