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ArticleNature communications2025

Temperature seasonality regulates organic carbon burial in lake.

Shengfang Zhou, Hao Long, Weizhe Chen, Chunjing Qiu, Can Zhang, Hang Xing, Jingran Zhang, Liangqing Cheng, Cheng Zhao, Jun Cheng and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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11 authors.

Shengfang Zhou *Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Hao Long *Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China. longhao@niglas.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2767-5521
Weizhe Chen *State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5126-3810
Chunjing QiuResearch Center for Global Change and Ecological Forecasting, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9951-3951
Can ZhangKey Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Hang XingKey Laboratory of Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Process (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.
Jingran ZhangSchool of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu Centre for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China.
Liangqing ChengKey Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Cheng ZhaoSchool of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Jun ChengSchool of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. chengjun@nuist.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-1410
Philippe CiaisLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l' Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8560-4943

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42307556Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS) Y201959
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organic carbon burial (OCB) in lakes, a critical component of the global carbon cycle, surpasses that in oceans, yet its response to global warming and associated feedbacks remains poorly understood. Using a well-dated biomarker sequence from the southern Tibetan Plateau and a comprehensive analysis of Holocene total organic carbon variations in lakes across the region, here we demonstrate that lake OCB significantly declined throughout the Holocene, closely linked to changes in temperature seasonality. Process-based land surface model simulations clarified the key impact of temperature seasonality on OCB in lakes: increased seasonality in the early Holocene saw warmer summers enhancing ecosystem productivity and organic matter deposition, while cooler winters improved organic matter preservation. The Tibetan Plateau's heightened sensitivity to climate and ecosystem dynamics amplifies these effects. With declining temperature seasonality, we predict a significant slowdown or reduction in OCB across these lake sediments, leading to carbon emissions and amplified global warming.

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