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Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources

Mountain areas provide disproportionally high runoff in many parts of the world, but their importance for water resources and food production has not been clarified from the viewpoint of the lowland areas down...

Daniel Viviroli, Matti Kummu, Michel Meybeck, Marko Kallio… in Nature Sustainability (2020)

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Versailles facing the degradation of its water supply from the Seine River: governance, water quality expertise and decision making, 1852–1894

In 1852 a new machine to provide greater volumes of Seine River water to Versailles was decided. The new Marly Machine was operated by the Versailles Water Service (VWS), a 150-year old state-owned institution...

Tatiana Dmitrieva, Laurence Lestel, Michel Meybeck, Sabine Barles in Water History (2018)

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Pavin, the Birthplace of French Limnology (1770–2012), and Its Degassing Controversy (1986–2016)

Lake Pavin is located in the Auvergne Mountains, central France, at 1300 m a.s.l. This small lake (0.44 km²), partially fills an explosive volcanic crater in the Cezallier, a young volcanic area south of the Mont...

Michel Meybeck in Lake Pavin (2016)

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Dragons, Fairies, Miracles and Worship at Pavin and Other European Maar-Lakes

The legends, miracles and fantastic stories of Pavin and around are numerous, although the key ones are so far not attributed to it. The current legend, that of the Sunken City, common to many lakes, was created ...

Michel Meybeck in Lake Pavin (2016)

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Pavin, A Rich but Fragmented History (200 AD–2016)

“Pavin Stories”, told to the lake’s visitors seeking its wild beauty, were reported throughout the nineteenth century by famous scholars such as Pierre Larousse, an encyclopedist, and Elysée Reclus, a geograph...

Michel Meybeck in Lake Pavin (2016)

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Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) transfer from inland waters to the atmosphere, known as CO₂ evasion, is a component of the global carbon cycle. Global estimates of CO₂ evasion have been hampered, however, by the lack of a f...

Peter A. Raymond, Jens Hartmann, Ronny Lauerwald, Sebastian Sobek, Cory McDonald… in Nature (2013)

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The Lateral Carbon Pump, and the European Carbon Balance

Comparing atmospheric inversion estimates of the carbon fluxes of continents with bottom-up estimates (Pacala et al. 2001; Janssens et al. 2003; Peylin et al. 2005) is no easy task because (1) inversion fluxes...

Philippe Ciais, Alberto V. Borges… in The Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Balan… (2008)

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Pre-industrial and contemporary fluxes of nitrogen through rivers: a global assessment based on typology

This paper provides a global synthesis of reactive nitrogen (Nr) loading to the continental landmass and subsequent riverine nitrogen fluxes under a gradient of anthropogenic disturbance, from pre-industrial t...

Pamela A. Green, Charles J. Vörösmarty, Michel Meybeck… in Biogeochemistry (2004)

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Introduction

This volume is a synthesis of the research undertaken by the Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (BAHC) Core Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) since its inception in 19...

Pavel Kabat, Martin Claussen, Paul A. Dirmeyer… in Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate (2004)

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Introduction

The foregoing parts demonstrate that the dynamics and biophysical character of land-atmosphere interactions are intimately connected to the dynamics and biophysical character of the land-based water cycle. The...

Michel Meybeck, Charles J. Vörösmarty in Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate (2004)

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References Part A

Pavel Kabat, Martin Claussen, Paul A. Dirmeyer… in Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate (2004)