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- Abbott, Benjamin W., et al.
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Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire : an expert assessment
- 2016
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Ingår i: Environmental Research Letters. - : IOP Publishing. - 1748-9326. ; 11:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the permafrost region warms, its large organic carbon pool will be increasingly vulnerable to decomposition, combustion, and hydrologic export. Models predict that some portion of this release will be offset by increased production of Arctic and boreal biomass; however, the lack of robust estimates of net carbon balance increases the risk of further overshooting international emissions targets. Precise empirical or model-based assessments of the critical factors driving carbon balance are unlikely in the near future, so to address this gap, we present estimates from 98 permafrost-region experts of the response of biomass, wildfire, and hydrologic carbon flux to climate change. Results suggest that contrary to model projections, total permafrost-region biomass could decrease due to water stress and disturbance, factors that are not adequately incorporated in current models. Assessments indicate that end-of-the-century organic carbon release from Arctic rivers and collapsing coastlines could increase by 75% while carbon loss via burning could increase four-fold. Experts identified water balance, shifts in vegetation community, and permafrost degradation as the key sources of uncertainty in predicting future system response. In combination with previous findings, results suggest the permafrost region will become a carbon source to the atmosphere by 2100 regardless of warming scenario but that 65%-85% of permafrost carbon release can still be avoided if human emissions are actively reduced.
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- Hansson, L. A., et al.
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Variation in physical, chemical and biological components in the subantarctic lakes of South Georgia
- 1996
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Ingår i: Ecography. - : Wiley. - 0906-7590. ; 19:4, s. 393-403
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Physical, chemical and biological variables were quantified in 19 subantarctic lakes (South Georgia) as a prelude to comparing these pristine systems with temperate lakes and to improve the knowledge of spatial and temporal variation in water chemistry and abundances of organisms. Lakes close to the sea had higher phosphorus concentrations, contained higher abundances of most organisms, and had higher number of invertebrate species than lakes situated further from the sea. Differences were attributed to higher nutrient input from marine organisms, such as penguins, seals and petrels, and probably also to a somewhat longer ice-free period. Since the lakes of South Georgia lack fish, the pelagic invertebrate fauna is dominated by herbivorous macrozooplankton. Rotifers are rare in the open water and are restricted to the vegetation (mainly mosses) in shallow areas and to the sediment surface. Generally, the algal abundance at the sediment surface is high in subantarctic lakes, indicating that the main part of the primary production is provided by benthic algae, which is in contrast to what is normally the case in temperate waters.
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- Tranvik, Lars J., et al.
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Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate
- 2009
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Ingår i: Limnology and Oceanography. - : Wiley. - 0024-3590 .- 1939-5590. ; 54:6:2, s. 2298-2314
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- We explore the role of lakes in carbon cycling and global climate, examine the mechanisms influencing carbon pools and transformations in lakes, and discuss how the metabolism of carbon in the inland waters is likely to change in response to climate. Furthermore, we project changes as global climate change in the abundance and spatial distribution of lakes in the biosphere, and we revise the estimate for the global extent of carbon transformation in inland waters. This synthesis demonstrates that the global annual emissions of carbon dioxide from inland waters to the atmosphere are similar in magnitude to the carbon dioxide uptake by the oceans and that the global burial of organic carbon in inland water sediments exceeds organic carbon sequestration on the ocean floor. The role of inland waters in global carbon cycling and climate forcing may be changed by human activities, including construction of impoundments, which accumulate large amounts of carbon in sediments and emit large amounts of methane to the atmosphere. Methane emissions are also expected from lakes on melting permafrost. The synthesis presented here indicates that (1) inland waters constitute a significant component of the global carbon cycle, (2) their contribution to this cycle has significantly changed as a result of human activities, and (3) they will continue to change in response to future climate change causing decreased as well as increased abundance of lakes as well as increases in the number of aquatic impoundments.
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- Barros, Nathan, et al.
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Carbon emission from hydroelectric reservoirs linked to reservoir age and latitude
- 2011
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Ingår i: Nature Geoscience. - : Nature Publishing Group. - 1752-0894 .- 1752-0908. ; 4:9, s. 593-596
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hydroelectric reservoirs cover an area of 3.4 x 10(5) km(2) and comprise about 20% of all reservoirs. In addition, they contain large stores of formerly terrestrial organic carbon. Significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted(2), especially in the early years following reservoir creation, but the global extent of these emissions is poorly known. Previous estimates of emissions from all types of reservoir indicate that these human-made systems emit 321 Tg of carbon per year (ref. 4). Here we assess the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from hydroelectric reservoirs, on the basis of data from 85 globally distributed hydroelectric reservoirs that account for 20% of the global area of these systems. We relate the emissions to reservoir age, location biome, morphometric features and chemical status. We estimate that hydroelectric reservoirs emit about 48 Tg C as CO(2) and 3 Tg C as CH(4), corresponding to 4% of global carbon emissions from inland waters. Our estimates are smaller than previous estimates on the basis of more limited data. Carbon emissions are correlated to reservoir age and latitude, with the highest emission rates from the tropical Amazon region. We conclude that future emissions will be highly dependent on the geographic location of new hydroelectric reservoirs.
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- Matrai, P.A., et al.
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Are high Arctic surface microlayers a potential source of aerosol organic precursors?
- 2008
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Ingår i: Marine Chemistry. - : Elsevier BV. - 0304-4203 .- 1872-7581. ; 108:1-2, s. 109-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Particulate organic matter, including microorganisms, small water-insoluble particles and microaggregates, can form a substantial part of the summer aerosol over the open leads of the central Arctic Ocean. The increased presence of leads during the summer melt increases the biological activity of the region possibly resulting in accumulation of organic material, especially in the surface microlayer. Preferential microlayer enrichment of particulate and dissolved organic matter and gases might be reflected in derived aerosols. The subsurface seawater and microlayer concentrations were determined for dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and its biogenic precursor dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), dissolved combined amino acids (DCAA) and individual aminoacids, proteins, chlorophyll a (chl a) and bacterial cells as well as bacterial production. Enrichment factors and surface excess concentrations in the surface microlayer were calculated. Concentrations of particulate and dissolved DMSP, chl a-containing material, and bacterial cells were consistently enriched in arctic lead microlayers at 89°N in August 2001. DMS, protein and DCAA concentrations, however, were not in excess in surface microlayers, although proteins were occasionally enriched. The average mole % DCAA composition was similar in subsurface and microlayer water. Enrichment spikes and excess concentrations followed freezing events and did not co-occur with enhanced bacterial production.
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- Rydin, E., et al.
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Compensatory nutrient enrichment in an oligotrophic mountain reservoir : effects and fate of added nutrients
- 2008
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Ingår i: Aquatic Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1015-1621 .- 1420-9055. ; 70:3, s. 323-336
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most Scandinavian rivers are impounded for power production. High altitude reservoirs retain water during summer and fall for power production during winter and spring. The oligotrophic lakes Mjölkvattnet and Burvattnet were impounded in 1942. Annual water level fluctuations caused by regulation have resulted in a loss of littoral habitat, and Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations have declined. To assess compensatory nutrient enrichment as a remedy against declining fish populations, we added dissolved phosphate and nitrate to Mjölkvattnet in June and July in 2002 and 2003, and used the upstream lake Burvattnet as a reference system. Nutrient addition doubled water column total phosphorus concentration, from 3 to 6 μg P/L and increased nitrogen concentration by about 20 μg/L. Half of the added phosphorus settled out as organic matter, and about one third was lost downstream. Phytoplankton production and biomass increased, but species composition remained principally unchanged. Rotifers and cladocerans responded rapidly, as did the condition of fish. After two years of nutrient addition, five year old Arctic char had doubled in weight and increased significantly in length, reaching pre-impoundment conditions.
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- Scharnweber, Kristin, 1983-, et al.
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Comprehensive analysis of chemical and biological problems associated with browning agents used in aquatic studies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Limnology and Oceanography. - : Wiley. - 1541-5856. ; 19:12, s. 818-835
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inland waters receive and process large amounts of colored organic matter from the terrestrial surroundings. These inputs dramatically affect the chemical, physical, and biological properties of water bodies, as well as their roles as global carbon sinks and sources. However, manipulative studies, especially at ecosystem scale, require large amounts of dissolved organic matter with optical and chemical properties resembling indigenous organic matter. Here, we compared the impacts of two leonardite products (HuminFeed and SuperHume) and a freshly derived reverse osmosis concentrate of organic matter in a set of comprehensive mesocosm- and laboratory-scale experiments and analyses. The chemical properties of the reverse osmosis concentrate and the leonardite products were very different, with leonardite products being low and the reverse osmosis concentrate being high in carboxylic functional groups. Light had a strong impact on the properties of leonardite products, including loss of color and increased particle formation. HuminFeed presented a substantial impact on microbial communities under light conditions, where bacterial production was stimulated and community composition modified, while in dark potential inhibition of bacterial processes was detected. While none of the browning agents inhibited the growth of the tested phytoplankton Gonyostomum semen, HuminFeed had detrimental effects on zooplankton abundance and Daphnia reproduction. We conclude that the effects of browning agents extracted from leonardite, particularly HuminFeed, are in sharp contrast to those originating from terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter. Hence, they should be used with great caution in experimental studies on the consequences of terrestrial carbon for aquatic systems.
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- Stepanauskas, R, et al.
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Bioavailability and sources of DOC and DON in macrophyte stands of a tropical coastal lake
- 2000
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Ingår i: Hydrobiologia. - 0018-8158. ; 436:1-3, s. 241-248
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) derived from aquatic and terrestrial vascular plants provide a major energy and nutrient source for freshwater and coastal marine biota. The bioavailability of this material may to a large extent depend on plant species. In this study, we have compared the bioavailability of DOC and DON sampled in two distinct stands of Typha domingensis and Eleocharis mutata in a coastal tropical lake and in the adjacent ocean in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Bioavailability of organic matter was assessed by regrowth bioassays using natural bacterial inocula. Nutrients were added to achieve carbon or nitrogen limitation. At all sampling sites, DON comprised over 95% of the total bioavailable nitrogen, suggesting its dominant role as a nitrogen source. The bioavailability of lacustrine DON (22% in the Typha stand and 34% in the Eleocharis stand) exceeded the bioavailability of DOC (8 and 10%, respectively) and exhibited a larger difference between the stands. H-3-leucine incorporation studies showed that lake bacterioplankton had a well balanced supply of C, N and P. Therefore, an accumulation of labile DON due to an excess nitrogen supply is not probable. We propose that a substantial part of the lake DON was newly formed within the macrophyte stands, while DOC was predominantly of terrestrial origin and more diagenetically changed.
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- Denward, C M T, et al.
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Solar radiation effects on decomposition of macrophyte litter in a lake littoral
- 2001
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Ingår i: Archiv für Hydrobiologie. - 0003-9136. ; 152:1, s. 69-80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ambient solar radiation effects on Phragmites australis leaf and culm litter were investigated in a shallow and eutrophic south Swedish lake littoral. Leaf and culm litter was exposed to natural sunlight in the lake at a water depth of a few centimeters. For the leaf litter, an additional subset of the experiment was exposed to solar radiation in the air, to evaluate effects of the solar radiation on the leaf litter in a dry state. Radiation treatments (shaded, photosynthetic active radiation [PAR], PAR + ultraviolet-A [UVA] and PAR + UVA + ultraviolet-B [UVB]) were achieved by screening with Plexiglas and Mylar film. Decomposition was measured as dry weight loss, and fungal and bacterial abundance on the detritus was estimated as ergosterol and bacterial numbers, respectively. We found no differences in either weight loss or bacterial abundance among radiation treatments. The fungal biomass in the dry leaf litter was unaffected by the radiation. In the wet leaf litter, however, the ergosterol content in PAR, PAR + UVA and PAR + UVA + UVB treated samples was about one third of the amounts found in the initial material and in the samples kept darkened. Similarly, the fungal biomass associated with the culm litter was negatively affected by solar PAR + UVA + UVB radiation, but in culms exposed only to PAR or to PAR + UVA it was not significantly different from the fungal biomass in darkened samples. These results suggest that the net effects of radiation differ between fungi and bacteria, with the fungi being more susceptible to suppression by solar radiation than the bacteria. Our experiments mimic more closely than previously published studies the conditions that can be expected in natural environments. Hence, we propose that previous reports of strong radiation effects on aquatic liner degradation should be applied very carefully to natural conditions.
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- Hansson, Lars-Anders, et al.
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Food webs in sub-Antarctic lakes: a stable isotope approach
- 2003
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Ingår i: Polar Biology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1432-2056 .- 0722-4060. ; 26:12, s. 783-788
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to improve the understanding of food-web interactions in sub-Antarctic freshwater systems, we complemented earlier experimental studies with analyses of differences in stable isotopes (N-15 and C-13) among organisms in two lakes with contrasting productivity. The distribution of the stable isotopes showed that the small copepod Boeckella michaelseni feeds mainly on pelagic POM (particulate organic material), whereas the larger copepod species B. poppei also feeds on benthic algae. Furthermore, the predatory copepod Parabroteas sarsi seems to mainly feed on B. michaelseni, but also on B. poppei and the benthic cladoceran, Alona weineckii. Moreover, stable-isotope data suggest that the diving beetle, Lancetes angusticollis, is not only feeding on B. poppei as indicated from experimental studies, but also on the benthic cladoceran A. weineckii. Although the food webs of the two lakes are very similar, they show considerable differences in the distribution of stable isotopes. We conclude that monitoring, experiments and stable-isotope analysis in combination give a reasonably clear picture of sub-Antarctic freshwater food webs.
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- J. Tranvik, Lars, et al.
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In situ mineralization of chlorinated phenols by pelagic bacteria in lakes of differing humic content
- 1991
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Ingår i: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. - : Wiley. - 0730-7268 .- 1552-8618. ; 10:2, s. 195-200
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The microbial mineralization of phenol and three chlorinated phenols (3,4-dichlorophenol, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol and pentachlorophenol) in the water column of 23 pristine, oligotrophic lakes of different humic content was investigated. During short-term (∼2 d) in situ incubations of water samples amended with 14C-labeled phenolic compounds, the fraction of the added pollutant mineralized to 14CO2 was positively correlated with water color (an estimate of humic content) and the total organic carbon concentration of the water. The rate of mineralization per bacterial cell was not correlated with humic content, due to increased bacterial abundance with increasing humic content. Hence, the higher mineralization rate in humic lakes than in clear-water lakes was probably a result of higher bacterial abundance rather than being an effect of bacterial cells having a higher potential for the degradation of such compounds.
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- Marotta, H., et al.
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Greenhouse gas production in low-latitude lake sediments responds strongly to warming
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nature Climate Change. - : Nature Publishing Group. - 1758-678X .- 1758-6798. ; 4:6, s. 467-470
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inland water sediments receive large quantities of terrestrial organic matter(1-5) and are globally important sites for organic carbon preservation(5,6). Sediment organic matter mineralization is positively related to temperature across a wide range of high-latitude ecosystems(6-10), but the situation in the tropics remains unclear. Here we assessed temperature effects on the biological production of CO2 and CH4 in anaerobic sediments of tropical lakes in the Amazon and boreal lakes in Sweden. On the basis of conservative regional warming projections until 2100 (ref. 11), we estimate that sediment CO2 and CH4 production will increase 9-61% above present rates. Combining the CO2 and CH4 as CO2 equivalents (CO(2)eq; ref. 11), the predicted increase is 2.4-4.5 times higher in tropical than boreal sediments. Although the estimated lake area in low latitudes is 3.2 times smaller than that of the boreal zone, we estimate that the increase in gas production from tropical lake sediments would be on average 2.4 times higher for CO2 and 2.8 times higher for CH4. The exponential temperature response of organic matter mineralization, coupled with higher increases in the proportion of CH4 relative to CO2 on warming, suggests that the production of greenhouse gases in tropical sediments will increase substantially. This represents a potential large-scale positive feedback to climate change.
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- Patriarca, Claudia, et al.
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Character and environmental lability of cyanobacteria-derived dissolved organic matter
- 2021
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Ingår i: Limnology and Oceanography. - : Wiley. - 0024-3590 .- 1939-5590. ; 66:2, s. 496-509
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Autotrophic dissolved organic matter (DOM) is central to the carbon biogeochemistry of aquatic systems, and the full complexity of autotrophic DOM has not been extensively studied, particularly by high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). Terrestrial DOM tends to dominate HRMS studies in freshwaters due to the propensity of such compounds to ionize by negative mode electrospray, and possibly also because ionizable DOM produced by autotrophy is decreased to low steady-state concentrations by heterotrophic bacteria. In this study, we investigated the character of DOM produced by the widespread cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa using high-pressure liquid chromatography—electrospray ionization—high-resolution mass spectrometry. M. aeruginosa produced thousands of detectable compounds in axenic culture. These compounds were chromatographically resolved and the majority were assigned to aliphatic formulas with a broad polarity range. We found that the DOM produced by M. aeruginosa was highly susceptible to removal by heterotrophic freshwater bacteria, supporting the hypothesis that this autotroph-derived organic material is highly labile and accordingly only seen at low concentrations in natural settings.
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- Seekell, David A., et al.
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A fractal-based approach to lake size-distributions
- 2013
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Ingår i: Geophysical Research Letters. - : American Geophysical Union (AGU). - 0094-8276 .- 1944-8007. ; 40:3, s. 517-521
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The abundance and size distribution of lakes is critical to assessing the role of lakes in regional and global biogeochemical processes. Lakes are fractal but do not always conform to the power law size-distribution typically associated with fractal geographical features. Here, we evaluate the fractal geometry of lakes with the goal of explaining apparently inconsistent observations of power law and non-power law lake size-distributions. The power law size-distribution is a special case for lakes near the mean elevation. Lakes in flat regions are power law distributed, while lakes in mountainous regions deviate from power law distributions. Empirical analyses of lake size data sets from the Adirondack Mountains in New York and the flat island of Gotland in Sweden support this finding. Our approach provides a unifying framework for lake size-distributions, indicates that small lakes cannot dominate total lake surface area, and underscores the importance of regional hypsometry in influencing lake size-distributions.
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- Seekell, David A., et al.
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Regional-scale variation of dissolved organic carbon concentrations in Swedish lakes
- 2014
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Ingår i: Limnology and Oceanography. - : Wiley. - 0024-3590 .- 1939-5590. ; 59:5, s. 1612-1620
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We assessed spatial variability in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations measured in nearly 2000 Swedish lakes. Inter-lake variance peaked at two different scales, representing within-region and between-region variability. The variation between regions was greater than the variation among lakes within regions. We tested relationships between DOC and runoff, drainage ratio, and altitude for spatial heterogeneity using geographically weighted regression. Relationships varied geographically, but cluster analysis delineated two contiguous regions of similar relationships. Altitude had a significant inverse relationship with DOC in the highlands, and drainage ratio had a significant positive relationship with DOC in the lowlands. These heterogeneous relationships explained regional patterns in DOC concentrations. We conclude that regions, rather than individual lakes, are a key, emergent scale of spatial variability for DOC concentrations. This scale of variability reflects the intersection of environmental gradients (e.g., altitude) with spatially heterogeneous relationships (e.g., DOC-drainage ratio relationship). Regional-scale structure in limnological patterns indicates that individual lakes are not independent from one another, but are emergent groups where DOC concentrations are a function of similar environmental patterns and processes.
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- Stepanauskas, R, et al.
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Summer inputs of riverine nutrients to the Baltic Sea: Bioavailability and eutrophication relevance
- 2002
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Ingår i: Ecological Monographs. - 0012-9615. ; 72:4, s. 579-597
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most nitrogen and phosphorus transported by world rivers to the oceans is associated with dissolved organic matter. However, organic matter as a potential source of N and P has hitherto been largely neglected in studies of coastal microbial food webs. We examined 50 rivers, draining a major part of the Baltic Sea watershed, with respect to summer concentrations, chemical composition, and biological availability of N and P. The broad spectrum of rivers studied enabled us to assess whether the input of terrigenous organic matter can be an important nutrient source, at various levels of anthropogenic loading of inorganic N and P. Concentrations of total N and P ranged from 9 to 220 mumol/L and from 0.14 to 5.56 mumol/L, respectively, with the highest concentrations in the southern part of the Baltic Sea drainage area and in several rivers on the Finnish western coast. Urea and dissolved combined amino acids (DCAA) each constituted 4-20% of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), while dissolved free amino acids (DFAA) made up <3% of DON. The contribution of urea and amino acids to the DON pool was inversely correlated with DON concentration. Bacterial regrowth bioassays in selected rivers demonstrated that similar to30% of DON and similar to75% of dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) was potentially available to the indigenous bacterial assemblage of the Baltic Sea, and hence susceptible to mineralization within the pelagic food web. Our study is among the first to demonstrate that bacterioplankton are able to utilize a major part of DON and DOP from a broad spectrum of natural waters. The C:N ratio, absorbance spectra, and fluorescence properties of the organic matter suggest that the observed high bioavailability of DON and DOP was due to a large contribution of organic matter from riverine primary production compared to the humic matter derived from terrestrial vascular plants. In addition, algal and bacterial cells dominated the transport of particulate organic material, further enhancing productivity of coastal waters. No correlations were found between DON bioavailability and the fraction of DON bound in urea and amino acids, indicating a utilization of other N compounds (e.g., amides) by the bacteria. We estimate that the input of summer riverine N to the Baltic Sea consists of 48% dissolved inorganic N, 41 % DON, and 11 % particulate N. Corresponding values for phosphorus are 46%, 18%, and 36% of dissolved inorganic P, DOP, and particulate P, respectively. During the thermal summer stratification, when freshwater inputs are trapped in the surface layer, rivers contribute similar to30% of N and similar to5% of P needed to support the export production (plankton sedimenting out of the photic layer) in the Baltic Sea. The high availability to bacteria suggests that DOP is a major stimulator of pelagic productivity in the P-limited northern part of the Baltic Sea. Based on reported concentrations in other areas, we suggest that the global contribution of riverine organic N and P to the primary production of coastal waters is comparable to the contribution of inorganic nutrients.
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- Urrutia-Cordero, P., et al.
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SITES AquaNet: An open infrastructure for mesocosm experiments with high frequency sensor monitoring across lakes
- 2021
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Ingår i: Limnology and Oceanography-Methods. - : Wiley. - 1541-5856. ; 19:6, s. 385-400
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For aquatic scientists mesocosm experiments are important tools for hypothesis testing as they offer a compromise between experimental control and realism. Here we present a new mesocosm infrastructure-SITES AquaNET-located in five lakes connected to field stations in Sweden that cover a similar to 760 km latitudinal gradient. SITES AquaNet overcomes major hindrances in aquatic experimental research through: (i) openness to the scientific community, (ii) the potential to implement coordinated experiments across sites and time, and (iii) high-frequency measurements (temperature, photosynthetic photon flux density, turbidity and dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll a and phycocyanin concentrations) with an autonomous sensor system. Moreover, the infrastructure provides operational guidance and sensor expertise from technical staff, and connections to a multi-layered monitoring programme ("SITES Water") for each lake. This enables ecological observations from whole lake ecosystems to be compared with experimental studies aiming at disentangling major drivers and mechanisms underlying observed changes. Here we describe the technical properties of the infrastructure along with possibilities for experimental manipulations to tackle pressing issues in aquatic ecology and global change science. As a proof of concept, we also present a first mesocosm experiment across all five field sites with a cross-factorial design to evaluate responses of the sensor measurements to press/bottom-up (constant light reduction) and pulse/top-down (temporary fish predation) disturbances. This demonstrates the suitability of the infrastructure and autonomous sensor system to host modularized experiments and exemplifies the power and advantages of the approach to integrate a network of mecsocosm facilities with manageable costs across large geographic areas.
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- Weyhenmeyer, G.A., et al.
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Lakes of Europe
- 2009
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of inland waters. - : Academic Press. - 9780120884629 - 9780123706263 ; , s. 567-576
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- Lakes of Europe show a great variability in their characteristics, with boreal lakes at northern latitudes as the most abundant lake type. The variability is a result of large gradients in climate, geological history, land use, and atmospheric deposition, mainly along a north–south axis. Worldwide, the best known lakes are probably Europe's lakes in the Alp region, most likely due to their spectacular surroundings and their long tradition of providing good research facilities with all necessary infrastructure. Lakes of Europe, including very remote lakes, are subjected to multiple stressors, climate change and atmospheric deposition being examples. These stressors can cause water quality problems. One of the most common water quality problems occurring in all European countries have been and still are harmful algal blooms
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