FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Atmospheric CO2 exchanges measured by eddy covariance over a temperate salt marsh and influence of environmental controlling factors BT AF Mayen, Jeremy Polsenaere, Pierre Lamaud, Éric Arnaud, Marie Kostyrka, Pierre Bonnefond, Jean-Marc Geairon, Philippe Gernigon, Julien Chassagne, Romain Lacoue-Labarthe, Thomas Regaudie de Gioux, Aurore Souchu, Philippe AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:3;4:1,4;5:1;6:3;7:1;8:6;9:7;10:8;11:5;12:2; FF 1:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERMPL;2:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPC;3:;4:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPC;5:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;6:;7:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPC;8:;9:;10:;11:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;12:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERMPL; C1 IFREMER, Littoral, Laboratoire Environnement Ressources des Pertuis Charentais (LER/PC), BP 133, 17390 La Tremblade, France IFREMER, Littoral, Laboratoire Environnement Ressources Morbihan-Pays de Loire (LER/MPL), BP 21105, 44311 Nantes, France INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, ISPA, 33140 Villenave d’Ornon, France Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne University, 75005 Paris, France IFREMER, Dyneco, Pelagos, ZI de la Pointe du Diable – CS 10070, 29280 Plouzané, France LPO, Réserve Naturelle de Lilleau des Niges, 17880 Les Portes en Ré, France BRGM, 3 avenue Claude-Guillemin, BP 36009, 45060 Orléans, CEDEX 02, Orléans, France Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7276, CNRS, La Rochelle Université, 2 Rue Olympe de Gouge, 17000 La Rochelle, France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE LPO, FRANCE BRGM, FRANCE UNIV LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE SI NANTES LA TREMBLADE BREST SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERMPL PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERPC PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS IN WOS Ifremer UPR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-univ-france IF 4.9 TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00882/99396/109420.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00882/99396/109421.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00882/99396/109422.pdf LA English DT Article AB Within the coastal zone, salt marshes are atmospheric CO2 sinks and represent an essential component of biological carbon (C) stored on earth due to a strong primary production. Significant amounts of C are processed within these tidal systems which requires a better understanding of the temporal CO2 flux dynamics, the metabolic processes involved and the controlling factors. Within a temperate salt marsh (French Atlantic coast), continuous CO2 fluxes measurements were performed by the atmospheric eddy covariance technique to assess the net ecosystem exchange (NEE) at diurnal, tidal and seasonal scales as well as the associated relevant biophysical drivers. To study marsh metabolic processes, measured NEE was partitioned into gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (Reco) during marsh emersion allowing to estimate NEE at the marsh–atmosphere interface (NEEmarsh = GPP − Reco). During the year 2020, the net C balance from measured NEE was −483 g C m−2 yr−1 while GPP and Reco absorbed and emitted 1019 and 533 g C m−2 yr−1, respectively. The highest CO2 uptake was recorded in spring during the growing season for halophyte plants in relationships with favourable environmental conditions for photosynthesis, whereas in summer, higher temperatures and lower humidity rates increased ecosystem respiration. At the diurnal scale, the salt marsh was a CO2 sink during daytime, mainly driven by light, and a CO2 source during night-time, mainly driven by temperature, irrespective of emersion or immersion periods. However, daytime immersion strongly affected NEE fluxes by reducing marsh CO2 uptake up to 90 %. During night-time immersion, marsh CO2 emissions could be completely suppressed, even causing a change in metabolic status from source to sink under certain situations, especially in winter when Reco rates were lowest. At the annual scale, tidal immersion did not significantly affect the net C uptake of the studied salt marsh since similar annual balances of measured NEE (with tidal immersion) and estimated NEEmarsh (without tidal immersion) were recorded. PY 2024 PD FEB SO Biogeosciences SN 1726-4170 PU Copernicus GmbH VL 21 IS 4 UT 001190532400001 BP 993 EP 1016 DI 10.5194/bg-21-993-2024 ID 99396 ER EF