Kim J, B Cremella Palmerini, Y Huot, YT Prairie. 2025. Large-scale assessment of oxic methane production in lakes using an isotopic mass balance approach, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7889423/v1

Kim J, SD Thottathil, YT Prairie. 2024. A simple approach to quantifying whole‐lake methane ebullition and sedimentary methane production, and its application to the Canadian Lake Pulse dataset. DOI:10.1002/lno.12767

McGinnis DF, YT Prairie, H-P Grossart, T DelSontro. 2023. Editorial: Sources, sinks, and emissions in aquatic systems: the past, present, and future under global change. Front. Environ. Sci. 11:1218878.ht, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1218878

Thottathil SD, PCJ Reis, YT Prairie. 2022. Variability and controls of stable carbon isotopic fractionation during aerobic methane oxidation in temperate lakes. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/110.3389/fenvs.2022.833688

Soued  C, YT Prairie. 2022. Patterns and regulation of hypolimnetic CO₂ and CH₄ in a tropical reservoir using a process-based modeling approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG006897. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006897

Shoji DT, PCJ Reis, YT Prairie. 2022. Magnitude and Drivers of Oxic Methane Production in Small Temperate Lakes. Environmental Science & Technology 2022 56 (15), 11041-11050https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c01730

Soued C, JA Harrison, S Mercier-Blais, YT Prairie. 2022. Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900–2060. Nature Geoscience. DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01004-2

Couturier M, YT Prairie, AM Paterson, E JS Erikson, PA del Giorgio. 2022. Long term trends in pCO2 in lake surface water following rebrowning. Geophysical Research Letters, 49. DOI: 10.1029/2022GL097973

Reis PCJ, SD Thottathil, and YT Prairie. 2022. The role of methanotrophy in the microbial carbon metabolism of temperate lakes. Nature Communications. 2022-12. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27718-2

Harrison JA, YT Prairie, C Soued, S Mercier-Blais. 2021. Year-2020 global distribution and pathways of reservoir methane and carbon dioxide emissions according to the greenhouse gas from reservoirs (G-res) model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006888

Prairie YT, S Mercier-Blais, JA Harrison, C Soued ,PA del Giorgio, A Harby,  J Alm, V Chanudet, R Nahas. 2021. A new modelling framework to assess biogenic GHG emissions from reservoirs: The G-res tool. Environmental Modelling and Software 143 (2021) 105117, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105117

Soued C and Prairie YT. 2021. Changing sources and processes sustaining surface CO2 and CH4 fluxes along a tropical river to reservoir system. Biogeosciences, 18(4), 1333–1350. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1333-2021

Thottathil SD and YT Prairie. 2021. Coupling of stable carbon isotopic signature of methane and ebullitive fluxes in northern temperate lakes.  Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146117

Koschorreck M, YT Prairie, J Kim, and R Marcé. 2021. Technical note: CO2 is not like CH4 – limits of and corrections to the headspace method to analyse pCO2 in water, Biogeosciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2020-307

Levasseur A, S Mercier-Blais, YT Prairie, A Tremblay, C Turpin. 2021. Improving the accuracy of electricity carbon footprint: Estimation of hydroelectric reservoir greenhouse gas emissions, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 136 (2021) 110433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110433

Reis PCJ, C Ruiz-Gonzalez, S  Crevecoeur, C Soued and YT Prairie. 2020. Rapid shifts in methanotrophic bacterial communities mitigate methane emissions from a tropical hydropower reservoir and its downstream river https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141374

Soued C and YT Prairie. 2020. The carbon footprint of a Malaysian tropical reservoir: measured versus modelled estimates highlight the underestimated key role of downstream processes, Biogeosciences, DOI:10.5194/bg-17-515-2020

Hutchins RHS, JP Casas-Ruiz, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio . 2020. Magnitude and drivers of integrated fluvial network greenhouse gas emissions across the boreal landscape in Québec, Water Research 173, DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115556

Reis PCJ, SD Thottathil, C Ruiz-Gonzalez and YT Prairie. 2020. Niche separation within aerobic methanotrophic bacteria across lakes and its link to methane oxidation rates, Environmental Microbiology 22(2), DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14877

Li Z, H Du, H Xu, Y Xiao, L Lu, JS Guo, YT Prairie and S Mercier-Blais. 2019. The carbon footprint of large- and mid-scale hydropower in China: Synthesis from five China’s largest hydro-project, Journal of Environmental Management 250:109363, DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109363

Crevecoeur S, C Ruiz-Gonzalez, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2019. Large scale biogeography and environmental regulation of methanotrophic bacteria across boreal inland waters, Molecular Ecology 28(18), DOI: 10.1111/mec.15223

Huot Y et al. 2019. The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate, Science of The Total Environment 695:133668, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133668

Thottathil SD, PCJ Reis and YT Prairie. 2019. Methane oxidation kinetics in northern freshwater lakes, Biogeochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-019-00552-x

Zwart JA,  O Hararuk, YT Prairie, SE Jones, CT Solomon. 2019. Improving estimates and forecasts of lake carbon dynamics using data assimilation, Limnology and oceanography, methods, 10.1002/lom3.10302

Hutchins RHS,  YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2019. Large-scale landscape drivers of CO2, CH4, DOC and DIC in boreal river networks, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, DOI: 10.1029/2018GB006106

Thottathil SD, PCJ Reis, PA del Giorgio and YT Prairie. 2018. The Extent and Regulation of Summer Methane Oxidation in Northern Lakes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences,  doi:10.1029/2018JG004464

Hararuk O, JA Zwart, SE Jones, YT Prairie, CT Solomon. 2018. Model‐Data Fusion to Test Hypothesized Drivers of Lake Carbon Cycling Reveals Importance of Physical Controls, Journal of Geophysical Research, 123:3  https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004084

Tranvik L, J Cole and YT Prairie. 2018. The study of carbon in lakes – from isolated ecosystems to players in the global carbon cycle. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 3:3 https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10068

Wang W, NT Roulet, Y Kim, IB Strachan, PA del Giorgio, YT Prairie and A Tremblay. 2018. Modelling CO2 emissions from water surface of a boreal hydroelectric reservoir, Science of the Total Environment, 612, 392–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.203

Politi E and YT Prairie. 2018. The potential of Earth Observation in modelling nutrient loading and water quality in lakes of southern Québec, Canada. Aquatic Sciences. 80: 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-017-0559-7

Prairie YT, J Alm, J Beaulieu, N Barros, T Battin, JJ Cole, PA del Giorgio, T DelSontro, F Guérin, A Harby, J Harrison, S Mercier-Blais, D Serça, S Sobek and D Vachon. 2018. GHG emissions from freshwater reservoirs: what does the atmosphere see? Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0198-9

DelSontro T, PA del Giorgio and YT Prairie. 2017. No longer a paradox. The interaction between physical transport and biological processes explains the spatial distribution of methane within and across lakes. Ecosystems https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-017-0205-1

Hutchins RHS, P Aukes, SL Schiff, T Dittmar, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2017. The optical, chemical, and molecular dissolved organic matter succession along a boreal soil-stream-river continuum. Journal of Geophysical Research. 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004094

DelSontro, T, L Boutet, A St-Pierre, PA del Giorgio and YT Prairie. 2016. Methane ebullition and diffusion from northern ponds and lakes regulated by the interaction between temperature and system productivity.  Limnology and Oceanography doi: 10.1002/lno.10335.

Vachon, D, YT Prairie, F Guillemette and PA del Giorgio. 2016. Modeling allochthonous dissolved organic carbon mineralization under variable hydrologic regimes in boreal lakes. Ecosystems. doi:10.1007/s10021-016-0057-0.

Kim, Y, NT Roulet, CS Li, S Frolking, IB Strachan, CH Peng, CR Teodoru, YT Prairie and A Tremblay. 2016. Simulating carbon dioxide exchange in boreal ecosystems flooded by reservoirs.  Ecological Modelling 327 : 1-17.

Wang W, NT Roulet, Y Kim, IB Strachan, PA del Giorgio, YT Prairie and A Tremblay.  2016. Integrating aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemical model to predict effects of reservoir creation on CO2 emissions. Biogeosciences Discussions doi:10.5194/bg-2016-100.

Li, M, A Parkes, YT Prairie, and PA del Giorgio. 2015. The relative influence of topography and land cover on inorganic and organic carbon export from catchments in southern Quebec, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120,12: 2562–2578

Mercier-Blais S, BE Beisner and YT Prairie. In revision. Shift in the sink-source carbon balance of lakes following thermocline deepening. Inland Waters.

Ducharme-Riel, V, D Vachon, PA del Giorgio and YT Prairie. 2015. The relative contribution of winter under-ice and summer hypolimnetic CO2 accumulation to the annual CO2 emissions from northern lakes. Ecosystems 18: 547-559.

Heathcote, AJ, NJ Anderson, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2014. Large increases in carbon burial in northern lakes during the Anthropocene. Nature Communication 6:10016.

Heathcote, AJ, PA del Giorgio and YT Prairie. 2015. Predicting bathymetric features of lakes from the topography of their surrounding landscape. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72: 643-650.

Rasilo, T, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2015. Large-scale patterns in summer diffusive CH4 fluxes across boreal lakes, and contribution to diffusive C emissions. Global Change Biology 21:1125-1139.

Bogard, MJ, PA del Giorgio, L Boutet, MCG Chaves, YT Prairie, A Merante and AM Derry. 2014. Oxic water column methanogenesis as a major component of aquatic CH4 fluxes. Nature Communications

Stubbins, A, JF Lapierre, M Berggen, YT Prairie, T Dittmar and PA del Giorgio. 2014. What’s in an EEM? Molecular Signatures Associated with Dissolved Organic Fluorescence in Boreal Canada. Environmental Science and Technology 48: 10598-10606.

Stubbins A, RG Spencer, PJ Mann, T Dittmar, J Niggemann, RM Holmes, JW McClelland, PA del Giorgio, YT Prairie, JF Lapierre and M Berggren. Biogeochemical interpretations of colored dissolved organic matter optical signatures. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1, 07.

Ferland ME, YT Prairie, C Teodoru and PA del Giorgio. 2014. Linking organic carbon sedimentation, burial efficiency and long-term accumulation in boreal lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 119: 836-847.

Weyhenmeyer GA, YT Prairie and LJ Tranvik. 2014. Browning of Boreal Freshwaters Coupled to Carbon-Iron Interactions along the Aquatic Continuum. PLoS one 9.

Vachon D and YT Prairie. 2013. The ecosystem size and shape dependence of gas transfer velocity versus wind speed relationships in lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 70: 1757–1764.

Prairie YT and PA del Giorgio. 2013. A new pathway of freshwater methane emissions and the putative importance of microbubbles. Inland Waters 3: 311 – 320.

Ferland ME, del Giorgio PA, Teodoru CR and YT Prairie. 2012. Long-term C accumulation and total C stocks in boreal lakes in northern Québec. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 26: GB0E04.

Teodoru CR, J Bastien, MC Booneville, PA del Giorgio, M Demarty, M Garneau, JF Helie, L Pelletier, Prairie, YT, NT Roulet, IB Stratchan and A Tremblay. 2012. The net carbon footprint of a newly created boreal hydroelectric reservoir. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 26: GB2016.

Brothers, SM, PA del Giorgio, CR Teodoru and YT Prairie. 2012. Landscape heterogeneity influences carbon dioxide production in a young boreal reservoir. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69: 447 – 456.

Brothers, S.M., YT Prairie and del Giorgio, P.A. 2012. Benthic and pelagic sources of carbon dioxide in boreal lakes and a young reservoir (Eastmain-1) in eastern Canada. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 26: GB1002.

Barros, N., JJ Cole, LJ Tranvik, YT Prairie, D Bastiviken, VLM Huszar, PA del Giorgio and F Roland. 2011. Carbon emission from hydroelectric reservoirs linked to reservoir age and latitude. Nature Geoscience 4: 593-596.

Teodoru C, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2011. Spatial heterogeneity of surface CO2 fluxes in a newly created Eastmain-1 reservoir in northern Quebec, Canada. Ecosystems 14: 28 – 46.

Vachon, D, YT Prairie and JJ Cole. 2010. The relationship between near-surface turbulence and gas transfer velocity in freshwater systems and its effect on floating chamber measurements. Limnology and Oceanography 55: 1723–1732.

Marchand D, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2009. Linking forest fires to lake metabolism and CO2 emissions in the boreal region of Northern Québec. Global Change Biology. 15: 2861-2873.

Teodoru C, PA del Giorgio, YT Prairie and M. Camiré. 2009. Patterns in pCO2  in boreal streams and rivers of northern Québec, Canada.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23: GB2012.

Roehm CL, YT Prairie and PA del Giorgio. 2009. The pCO2 dynamics in lakes in the boreal region of northern Québec, Canada.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles GB3013.

Calleja ML, CM Duarte, YT Prairie, S Agustí and G Herndl. Organic matter modulation of air-sea CO2 exchange. 2009. Biogeosciences 6: 1105-1114.

Finlay K, PR Leavitt, B Wissel, and YT Prairie. 2010. Regulation of spatial and temporal variability of carbon flux in six hard-water lakes of the northern Great Plains. Limnology and Oceanography 55: 2553-2564.

Tranvik L, JA Downing, YT Prairie et al. 2009. Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate. Limnology and Oceanography 54: 2298-2314.

Duarte, CM, YT Prairie, C Montes, JJ Cole, R Striegl, J Melack, and JA Downing. CO2 emissions from saline lakes: A global estimate of a surprisingly large flux. Journal of Geophysical Research 113: G04041.

Prairie, YT. 2008. Carbocentric limnology: looking back, looking forward. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 543-548.

Downing, JA, JJ Cole, JJ Middelburg, RG Striegl, CM Duarte, P Kortelainen, YT Prairie, and KA Laube. 2008, Sediment organic carbon burial in agriculturally eutrophic impoundments over the last century, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22: GB1018.

Cole, JJ, YT Prairie, NF Caraco, WH McDowell, LJ Tranvik, RG Striegl, CM Duarte, P Kortelainen, and JA Downing. 2007. Plumbing the global carbon cycle: Integrating inland waters into the terrestrial carbon budget. Ecosystems 10: 171-184.

Sobek S, LJ Tranvik, YT Prairie, P Kortelainen, and JJ Cole. 2007. Global scale patterns and regulation of dissolved organic carbon  in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 1208-1219.

Prairie, YT and CM Duarte. 2006. Direct and indirect metabolic CO2 release by humanity. Biogeosciences 4: 215-217 .

Duarte, CM and YT Prairie. 2005. Prevalence of heterotrophy and atmospheric CO2 emissions from aquatic ecosystems. Ecosystems 8: 862-870.

Book chapters

Prairie YT and JJ Cole. 2024. Wetzel’s Limnology, Fourth Edition, Chapter 13: The Inorganic Carbon Complex. DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-822701-5.00013-6

Prairie YT and JJ Cole. 2009. Carbon : Unifying currency. Dans The Encyclopedia of inland waters, G.E. Likens, editor, Elsevier.

Cole, JJ and YT Prairie. 2009. Carbon dioxide. Dans The Encyclopedia of inland waters, G.E. Likens, editor, Elsevier.

Pace, ML and YT Prairie. 2005. Respiration in lakes. In: Respiration in Aquatic Systems. P.A. del Giorgio and P.LeB. Williams (eds.). Oxford University Press.