Abstract:Freshwater ecosystem, as sink of the terrestrial and anthropogenic carbon, is the most active bioreactor for global carbon biogeochemical processes and an important emitter of greenhouse gases (i.e. CO2 and CH4) to atmosphere, and then influences the global climate change and carbon cycling. CO2 and CH4 emissions from freshwaters have been extensively attentional in recent years given their importance, particularly that the emissions would be further enhanced by the increasing human activities. The urban small-scale landscape water bodies (including landscape pond, lake), featured by small area and large quantity, are a crucial component of urban ecosystem and strongly influenced by human activities. However, greenhouse gases emissions from such artificial-dominated waters are rarely studied and have been badly neglected. In the present study, for exploring the spatiotemporal variations and controls of CO2 and CH4 emissions from urban small landscape waters, we selected eight landscape water bodies and two natural water bodies in Chongqing, and carried out four seasonal investigations of CO2 and CH4 concentrations and emissions from the surface water in January, April, July and October in 2019 through the static chamber-gas chromatography technique and headspace method. Meanwhile, the vegetated and non-vegetated zones in the sampling water were monitored separately to identify the hydrophyte's disturbance. The result showed that CO2 and CH4 concentrations in urban landscape waters in Chongqing were widely supersaturated with range of 10.75-116.25 μmol/L (averaged (42.5±28.7) μmol/L) and 0.09-3.61 μmol/L (average of (0.98±0.80) μmol/L), respectively; the average CO2 and CH4 fluxes measured by the floating box method were (72.7±65.9) and (2.3±3.5) mmol m-2 d-1 respectively, indicating that the urban landscape waters were the net CO2/CH4 emission source. CO2 and CH4 emissions from the residential landscape waters were slightly higher than those from the landscape waters in campuses, but both were significantly higher than the two natural waters which were almost impervious to urban activity, suggested that the urban landscape waters could play a crucial contribution to the inland water CO2 and CH4 emissions on regional scale. In addition, the distribution of aquatic plants had a significant impact on the CO2 and CH4 emissions of landscape waters with that the emission flux from non-vegetated water was universally smaller than that from vegetated zone. CO2 and CH4 fluxes from urban landscape waters presented obviously seasonal patterns, there into, CO2 fluxes were the highest in summer, followed by autumn, and the lowest in winter and spring, while CH4 fluxes in summer were higher than that in autumn and spring, significantly higher than winter. Temperature was the critical factor determining the seasonal variation of CH4 and CO2 emissions, while CO2 flux was also affected by water primary production. CO2 emissions of landscape waters were significantly associated with the factors such as pH, nitrogen, carbon concentration and dissolved oxygen. Meanwhile, CH4 emissions were mainly related to the carbon and phosphorus concentrations in surface water. The CO2 and CH4 fluxes from urban small landscape water bodies in this study were much higher than most of the previous survey on natural lakes, reservoirs and ponds, which highlighted the landscape waters may be a strong source of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, and plays a vital role in the greenhouse gas emission inventory from global or regional freshwater system, and thus more attention should be paid in future.