Expanding the isotopic toolbox: applications of hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios to food web studies

HB Vander Zanden, DX Soto, GJ Bowen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The measurement of stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes in tissues of
organisms has formed the foundation of isotopic food web reconstructions, as these values …

Natural organic matter as precursor to disinfection byproducts and its removal using conventional and advanced processes: state of the art review

S Tak, BP Vellanki - Journal of water and health, 2018 - iwaponline.com
Natural organic matter (NOM) is ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and if present can
cause varied drinking water quality issues, the major one being disinfection byproduct (DBP) …

Terrestrial support of lake food webs: Synthesis reveals controls over cross-ecosystem resource use

AJ Tanentzap, BW Kielstra, GM Wilkinson… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Widespread evidence that organic matter exported from terrestrial into aquatic ecosystems
supports recipient food webs remains controversial. A pressing question is not only whether …

Lowered nutritional quality of plankton caused by global environmental changes

DCP Lau, A Jonsson, PDF Isles, IF Creed… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global environmental changes are causing widespread nutrient depletion, declines in the
ratio of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (N) to total phosphorus (DIN: TP), and increases in both …

Primary producers or consumers? Increasing phytoplankton bacterivory along a gradient of lake warming and browning

S Wilken, M Soares, P Urrutia‐Cordero… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Eukaryotic phytoplankton form the basis of aquatic food webs and play a key role in the
global carbon cycle. Many of these evolutionarily diverse microalgae are also capable of …

Reevaluating the role of organic matter sources for coastal eutrophication, oligotrophication, and ecosystem health

A Deininger, H Frigstad - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Organic matter (OM) in aquatic systems is either produced internally (autochthonous OM) or
delivered from the terrestrial environment (ter-OM). For eutrophication (or the reverse …

Environmental drivers of mixotrophs in boreal lakes

TH Hansson, HP Grossart… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mixotrophy is increasingly recognized as an important trophic pathway among
phytoplankton, yet its underlying drivers remain largely unknown and unexplored. Here, we …

Declining calcium concentration drives shifts toward smaller and less nutritious zooplankton in northern lakes

AK Bergström, IF Creed, A Paltsev… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Zooplankton community composition of northern lakes is changing due to the interactive
effects of climate change and recovery from acidification, yet limited data are available to …

Quality transformation of dissolved organic carbon during water transit through lakes: contrasting controls by photochemical and biological processes

M Berggren, M Klaus, BP Selvam, L Ström… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) may be removed, transformed, or added during water
transit through lakes, resulting in changes in DOC composition and pigmentation (color) …

Contribution of point sources and non-point sources to nutrient and carbon loads and their influence on the trophic status of the Ganga River at Varanasi, India

A Yadav, J Pandey - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017 - Springer
To determine the possible contributions of point and non-point sources to carbon and
nutrient loading in the Ganga River, we analyzed N, P, and organic carbon (OC) in the …