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ArticleCommunications earth & environment2025

Long term carbon export from mountain forests driven by hydroclimate and extreme event driven landsliding.

Jamie D Howarth, Sean J Fitzsimons, Adelaine Moody, Jin Wang, Mark H Garnett, Thomas Croissant, Alex L Densmore, Andy Howell, Robert G Hilton

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Article in Communications earth & environment, 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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9 authors.

Jamie D HowarthSchool of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-4365-0292
Sean J FitzsimonsSchool of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-0513-7367
Adelaine MoodySchool of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Jin WangDepartment of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Mark H GarnettNEIF Radiocarbon Laboratory, East Kilbride, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6486-2126
Thomas CroissantDepartment of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Alex L DensmoreDepartment of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Andy HowellDepartment of Earth Structure and Processes, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Robert G HiltonDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0499-3332

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The export of organic carbon from terrestrial ecosystems by erosion may play a central role in balancing the geological carbon cycle and Earth's climate over millennial timescales. However, constraints on organic carbon yields have come from sampling modern rivers that don't capture variation over decades to millennia driven by changing hydroclimate and erosion during extreme events. Here we use volumetric reconstructions of lake sedimentary fills to generate timeseries of sediment and organic carbon yields from two catchments draining the Southern Alps, New Zealand over the last millennium. The reconstructed yields indicate that earthquake-induced landslides significantly increase sediment and organic carbon yields, contributing to pulsed export that accounts for ~40% of the total. Between extreme events, organic carbon export increased twofold during centuries with a wetter reconstructed climate. Our findings suggest that the link between hydroclimate and organic carbon export may act as a negative feedback in the longer-term carbon cycle.

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Carbon cycleGeomorphologyNatural hazards

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PMID40486184
PMCPMC12137134

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