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TI Water temperature control on      CO   2     flux and evaporation over a subtropical seagrass meadow revealed by atmospheric eddy covariance
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AF Van Dam, Bryce R.
   Lopes, Christian C.
   Polsenaere, Pierre
   Price, René M.
   Rutgersson, Anna
   Fourqurean, James W.
AS 1:1,2;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:2;
FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPC;4:;5:;6:;
C1 Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz‐Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) Geesthacht, Germany
   Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Coastal Oceans Research Florida International University Miami Florida, USA
   IFREMER, Laboratoire Environmement Ressources des Pertuis Charentais (LER‐PC) La Tremblade ,France
   Department of Earth and Environment and Southeast Environmental Research Center Florida International University Miami Florida, USA
   Department of Earth Sciences Uppsala University Uppsala ,Sweden
C2 HZG, GERMANY
   UNIV FLORIDA INT, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV FLORIDA INT, USA
   UNIV UPPSALA, SWEDEN
SI LA TREMBLADE
SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPC
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 5.019
TC 13
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00654/76656/77789.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Subtropical seagrass meadows play a major role in the coastal carbon cycle, but the nature of air–water CO2 exchanges over these ecosystems is still poorly understood. The complex physical forcing of air–water exchange in coastal waters challenges our ability to quantify bulk exchanges of CO2 and water (evaporation), emphasizing the need for direct measurements. We describe the first direct measurements of evaporation and CO2 flux over a calcifying seagrass meadow near Bob Allen Keys, Florida. Over the 78‐d study, CO2 emissions were 36% greater during the day than at night, and the site was a net CO2 source to the atmosphere of 0.27 ± 0.17 μmol m−2 s−1 (x̅ ± standard deviation). A quarter (23%) of the diurnal variability in CO2 flux was caused by the effect of changing water temperature on gas solubility. Furthermore, evaporation rates were ~ 10 times greater than precipitation, causing a 14% increase in salinity, a potential precursor of seagrass die‐offs. Evaporation rates were not correlated with solar radiation, but instead with air–water temperature gradient and wind shear. We also confirm the role of convective forcing on night‐time enhancement and day‐time suppression of gas transfer. At this site, temperature trends are regulated by solar heating, combined with shallow water depth and relatively consistent air temperature. Our findings indicate that evaporation and air–water CO2 exchange over shallow, tropical, and subtropical seagrass ecosystems may be fundamentally different than in submerged vegetated environments elsewhere, in part due to the complex physical forcing of coastal air–sea gas transfer. 
PY 2021
PD FEB
SO Limnology And Oceanography
SN 0024-3590
PU Wiley
VL 66
IS 2
UT 000576036600001
BP 510
EP 527
DI 10.1002/lno.11620
ID 76656
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