Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems

M Berggren, F Guillemette, M Bieroza, I Buffam… - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite our growing understanding of the global carbon cycle, scientific consensus on the
drivers and mechanisms that control dissolved organic carbon (DOC) turnover in aquatic …

Controls of dissolved organic matter quality: Evidence from a large‐scale boreal lake survey

DN Kothawala, CA Stedmon, RA Müller… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Inland waters transport large amounts of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from terrestrial
environments to the oceans, but DOM also reacts en route, with substantial water column …

Increases in terrestrially derived carbon stimulate organic carbon processing and CO2 emissions in boreal aquatic ecosystems

JF Lapierre, F Guillemette, M Berggren… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The concentrations of terrestrially derived dissolved organic carbon have been increasing
throughout northern aquatic ecosystems in recent decades, but whether these shifts have an …

Interactions between sunlight and microorganisms influence dissolved organic matter degradation along the aquatic continuum

RM Cory, GW Kling - Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
CO2 emissions from inland surface waters to the atmosphere are almost as large as the net
carbon transfer from the atmosphere to Earth's land surface. This large flux is supported by …

Hydrophilic species are the most biodegradable components of freshwater dissolved organic matter

C Grasset, M Groeneveld, LJ Tranvik… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aquatic dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a crucial component of the global carbon cycle,
and the extent to which DOM escapes mineralization is important for the transport of organic …

Ecosystem respiration: drivers of daily variability and background respiration in lakes around the globe

CT Solomon, DA Bruesewitz… - Limnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We assembled data from a global network of automated lake observatories to test
hypotheses regarding the drivers of ecosystem metabolism. We estimated daily rates of …

DOM composition alters ecosystem function during microbial processing of isolated sources

J D'Andrilli, JR Junker, HJ Smith, EA Scholl… - Biogeochemistry, 2019 - Springer
Dynamics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in ecosystems are controlled by a suite of
interacting physical, chemical, and biological factors. Growing recognition of the …

Microbial degradation of terrigenous dissolved organic matter and potential consequences for carbon cycling in brown-water streams

C Fasching, B Behounek, GA Singer, TJ Battin - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Streams receive substantial terrestrial deliveries of dissolved organic matter (DOM). The
chromophoric (CDOM) fraction of terrestrial deliveries confers the brown colour to …

Partial coupling and differential regulation of biologically and photochemically labile dissolved organic carbon across boreal aquatic networks

JF Lapierre, PA Del Giorgio - Biogeosciences, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
Despite the rapidly increasing volume of research on the biological and photochemical
degradation of DOC (dissolved organic carbon) in aquatic environments, little is known of …

Biological lability of streamwater fluorescent dissolved organic matter

RM Cory, LA Kaplan - Limnology and Oceanography, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the biological lability of fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) from a
temperate Piedmont stream. Plug‐flow bioreactors, colonized and maintained with natural …