FRACTAL

Fluvial Records and Archives of Carbon Transport through Anthropocene Landscapes

Concept 

In the past decades, many catchments all over the world have been the subject of carbon-focused projects, but most of these previous studies have focused on a single catchment. The set-up of FRACTAL is directed at aggregating all published and in-group data on riverine carbon and therefore allows the analysis of riverine carbon data in a global context. The database is currently constructed and hence not yet published, but it  aims to comprise data on suspended sediment, river discharge, concentration and isotopic signature (¹³C & ¹⁴C) of particulate organic carbon as well as dissolved organic and inorganic carbon.

The database will offer the possibility to find further relations between different carbon speciation, isotopic composition, residence time and properties that have not been discovered so far.

Project member

• Hannah Gies