AFRIVAL

The AFRIVAL project ran between October 2009 and September 2014, but we'll keep providing updates of the publications on this page (see below). 

Our work on African rivers and lakes continues through different other projects, please see the links provided elsewhere in this website to find out more.

AFRIVAL was a joint ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant hosted at the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences (K.U.Leuven) and the Chemical Oceanography Unit (Université de Liège).

Fieldwork within AFRIVAL took place in Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique, Niger, Gabon, Madagascar and the Congo River basin (DRC Congo, Central African Republic).

Below a short documentary made by Euronews during a field trip on the Zambezi River in February 2013 which outlines some of the projects objectives.

AFRIVAL

African river basins: catchment-scale carbon fluxes and Transformations

AFRIVAL publications available from ORBI

Article (Scientific journals)

Spatial and temporal variations of dissolved CO2, CH4 and N2O in Lakes Edward and George (East Africa)

Borges, Alberto ; Okello, William; Bouillon, Steven et al.

2023 • In Journal of Great Lakes Research, 49 (1), p. 229-245

Article (Scientific journals)

Greenhouse gas emissions from African lakes are no longer a blind spot

Borges, Alberto ; Deirmendjian, Loris ; Bouillon, Steven et al.

2022 • In Science Advances, 8 (25), p. 1-17

Article (Scientific journals)

Freshwater bivalve shells as hydrologic archives in the Congo Basin

Kelemen, Z; Gillikin, DP; Borges, Alberto et al.

2021 • In Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 308 (0), p. 101-117

Article (Scientific journals)

The possible occurrence of iron-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation in an Ancient ocean analog

Roland, Fleur ; Borges, Alberto ; Darchambeau, François et al.

2021 • In Scientific Reports, 11 (1597), p. 1-11

Article (Scientific journals)

Variations in dissolved greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) in the Congo River network overwhelmingly driven by fluvial-wetland connectivity

Borges, Alberto ; Darchambeau, François ; Lambert, Thibault et al.

2019 • In Biogeosciences, 16 (19), p. 3801-3834

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