Large greenhouse gases emissions from China's lakes and reservoirs

equivalent, with 73.4% of this forcing contributed by lakes. These aquatic sources are equivalent to 14.1%-22.6% of China's estimated terrestrial carbon sink. Our results suggest a disproportionally high contribution of China's reservoirs and lakes to national and global GHGs emissions, highlighting major data gaps and the need of including more artificial and natural lakes data from developing countries like China in global GHGs budgets.