Quantifying the degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: A review and synthesis

S Arndt, BB Jørgensen, DE LaRowe, JJ Middelburg… - Earth-science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Quantifying the rates of biogeochemical processes in marine sediments is essential for
understanding global element cycles and climate change. Because organic matter …

Impacts of global change on ocean dissolved organic carbon (DOC) cycling

C Lønborg, C Carreira, T Jickells… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is an important player in the functioning of
marine ecosystems. DOC is at the interface between the chemical and the biological worlds …

Organic carbon decomposition rates controlled by water retention time across inland waters

N Catalán, R Marcé, DN Kothawala, LJ Tranvik - Nature Geoscience, 2016 - nature.com
The loss of organic carbon during passage through the continuum of inland waters from
soils to the sea is a critical component of the global carbon cycle,,. Yet, the amount of …

The role of terrestrially derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean: A changing paradigm and the priming effect

TS Bianchi - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
One of the major conundrums in oceanography for the past 20 y has been that, although the
total flux of dissolved organic carbon (OC; DOC) discharged annually to the global ocean …

Discussion about suitable applications for biodegradable plastics regarding their sources, uses and end of life

I Paul-Pont, JF Ghiglione, E Gastaldi, A Ter Halle… - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This opinion paper offers a scientific view on the current debate of the place of
biodegradable plastics as part of the solution to deal with the growing plastic pollution in the …

riverine DOM

PA Raymond, RGM Spencer - Biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic …, 2015 - Elsevier
The riverine input of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to the oceans is important to the
quantity of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and quality of oceanic DOM. Here we …

Reactivity continuum of dissolved organic carbon decomposition in lake water

B Koehler, E Von Wachenfeldt… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We determined microbial decomposition of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) over 3.7 year
long dark bioassays of six Swedish lake waters. The overall lost DOC fraction was similar in …

[PDF][PDF] 12.6-Dissolved organic matter in aquatic systems

T Dittmar, A Stubbins - Treatise on geochemistry, 2014 - researchgate.net
SPE-DOM The fraction of DOM isolated using solid-phase extraction (SPE). Varian Bond
Elut (PPL) adsorbers are commonly used and isolate $60% of DOC. UDOM Ultrafiltered …

What is refractory organic matter in the ocean?

F Baltar, XA Alvarez-Salgado, J Arístegui… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
About 20% of the organic carbon produced in the sunlit surface ocean is transported into the
ocean's interior as dissolved, suspended and sinking particles to be mineralized and …

Differentiating the degradation dynamics of algal and terrestrial carbon within complex natural dissolved organic carbon in temperate lakes

F Guillemette, SL McCallister… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
It has often been hypothesized that the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool of algal origin
in lakes is more bioavailable than its terrestrial counterpart, but this hypothesis has seldom …