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- Haei, Mahsa, 1981-, et al.
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Cold winter soils enhance dissolved organic carbon concentrations in soil and stream water
- 2010
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Ingår i: Geophysical Research Letters. - : American Geophysical Union. - 0094-8276 .- 1944-8007. ; 37, s. L08501-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon ([DOC]) have increased in lakes, streams and rivers across a large part of the northern hemisphere and raised an animated scientific debate about the underlying mechanisms. The lack of consensus about the role of climate in controlling the DOC trends highlights the need for understanding the regulation of surface water DOC. We found that longer and colder winters result in higher [DOC] in a boreal headwater stream during the subsequent snowmelt. In addition, prolonged soil frost increases the spring and summer [DOC] in the riparian soil water, which is a major contributor of stream water DOC in the studied area. We conclude that winter climatic conditions can play a substantial role in controlling stream [DOC] in ways not previously understood. These findings are especially important for northern latitude regions expected to be most affected by climate change. Citation: Haei, M., M. G. Oquist, I. Buffam, A. angstrom gren, P. Blomkvist, K. Bishop, M. Ottosson Lofvenius, and H. Laudon (2010), Cold winter soils enhance dissolved organic carbon concentrations in soil and st ream water, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L08501, doi: 10.1029/2010GL042821.
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- Laudon, Hjalmar, et al.
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Patterns and Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in Boreal Streams : The Role of Processes, Connectivity, and Scaling
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ecosystems (New York. Print). - New York, NY : Springer. - 1432-9840 .- 1435-0629. ; 14:6, s. 880-893
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We bring together three decades of research from a boreal catchment to facilitate an improved mechanistic understanding of surface water dissolved organic carbon (DOC) regulation across multiple scales. The Krycklan Catchment Study encompasses 15 monitored nested research catchments, ranging from 3 to 6900 ha in size, as well as a set of monitored transects of forested and wetland soils. We show that in small homogenous catchments, hydrological functioning provides a first order control on the temporal variability of stream water DOC. In larger, more heterogeneous catchments, stream water DOC dynamics are regulated by the combined effect of hydrological mechanisms and the proportion of major landscape elements, such as wetland and forested areas. As a consequence, streams with heterogeneous catchments undergo a temporal switch in the DOC source. In a typical boreal catchment covered by 10-20% wetlands, DOC originates predominantly from wetland sources during low flow conditions. During high flow, the major source of DOC is from forested areas of the catchment. We demonstrate that by connecting knowledge about DOC sources in the landscape with detailed hydrological process understanding, an improved representation of stream water DOC regulation can be provided. The purpose of this study is to serve as a framework for appreciating the role of regulating mechanisms, connectivity and scaling for understanding the pattern and dynamics of surface water DOC across complex landscapes. The results from this study suggest that the sensitivity of stream water DOC in the boreal landscape ultimately depends on changes within individual landscape elements, the proportion and connectivity of these affected landscape elements, and how these changes are propagated downstream.
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- Peichl, Matthias, et al.
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Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Geophysical Research. - 2156-2202. ; 118, s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigated patterns and controls of the seasonal and inter-annual variations in energy fluxes (i.e., sensible heat, H, and latent heat, lambda E) and partitioning of the water budget (i.e., precipitation, P; evapotranspiration, ET; discharge, Q; and soil water storage, Delta S) over five years (2001-2005) in a boreal oligotrophic fen in northern Sweden based on continuous eddy covariance, water table level (WTL), and weir measurements. For the growing season (May 1 to September 31), the 5 year averages (+/- standard deviation) of the midday (10:00 to 14:00 h) Bowen ratio (beta, i.e., H/lambda E) was 0.86 +/- 0.08. Seasonal and inter-annual variability of beta was mainly driven by lambda E which itself was strongly controlled by both weather (i.e., vapor pressure deficit, D, and net radiation, R-n) and physiological parameters (i.e., surface resistance). During the growing season, surface resistance largely exceeded aerodynamic resistance, which together with low mean values of the actual ET to potential ET ratio (0.55 +/- 0.05) and Priestley-Taylor alpha (0.89) suggests significant physiological constrains on ET in this well-watered fen. Among the water budget components, the inter-annual variability of ET was lower (199 to 298 mm) compared to Q (225 to 752 mm), with each accounting on average for 34 and 65% of the ecosystem water loss, respectively. The fraction of P expended into ET was negatively correlated to P and positively to R-n. Although a decrease in WTL caused a reduction of the surface conductance, the overall effect of WTL on ET was limited. Non-growing season (October 1 to April 30) fluxes of H, lambda E, and Q were significant representing on average -67%, 13%, and 61%, respectively, of their growing season sums (negative sign indicates opposite flux direction between the two seasons). Overall, our findings suggest that plant functional type composition, P and R-n dynamics (i.e., amount and timing) were the major controls on the partitioning of the mire energy and water budgets. This has important implications for the regional climate as well as for ecosystem development, nutrient, and carbon dynamics. Citation: Peichl, M., J. Sagerfors, A. Lindroth, I. Buffam, A. Grelle, L. Klemedtsson, H. Laudon, and M. B. Nilsson (2013), Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 118, 1-13, doi:10.1029/2012JG002073.
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- Wallin, Marcus B., et al.
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Spatiotemporal variability of the gas transfer coefficient (KCO2) in boreal streams : Implications for large scale estimates of CO2 evasion
- 2011
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Ingår i: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0886-6236 .- 1944-9224. ; 25:3, s. GB3025-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Boreal streams represent potentially important conduits for the exchange of carbon dioxide (CO(2)) between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. The gas transfer coefficient of CO(2) (K(CO2)) is a key variable in estimating this source strength, but the scarcity of measured values in lotic systems creates a risk of incorrect flux estimates even when stream gas concentrations are well known. This study used 114 independent measurements of K(CO2) from 14 stream reaches in a boreal headwater system to determine and predict spatiotemporal variability in K(CO2). The K(CO2) values ranged from 0.001 to 0.207 min(-1) across the 14 sites. Median K(CO2) for a specific site was positively correlated with the slope of the stream reach, with higher gas transfer coefficients occurring in steeper stream sections. Combining slope with a width/depth index of the stream reach explained 83% of the spatial variability in K(CO2). Temporal variability was more difficult to predict and was strongly site specific. Variation in K(CO2), rather than pCO(2), was the main determinant of stream CO(2) evasion. Applying published generalized gas transfer velocities produced an error of up to 100% in median instantaneous evasion rates compared to the use of actual measured K(CO2) values from our field study. Using the significant relationship to local slope, the median K(CO2) was predicted for 300,000 km of watercourses (ranging in stream order 1-4) in the forested landscape of boreal/nemoral Sweden. The range in modeled stream order specific median K(CO2) was 0.017-0.028 min(-1) and there was a clear gradient of increasing K(CO2) with lower stream order. We conclude that accurate regional scale estimates of CO(2) evasion fluxes from running waters are possible, but require a good understanding of gas exchange at the water surface.
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- Wallin, Marcus, et al.
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Evasion of CO2 from streams : The dominant component of the carbon export through the aquatic conduit in a boreal landscape
- 2013
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Ingår i: Global Change Biology. - : Wiley. - 1354-1013 .- 1365-2486. ; 19:3, s. 785-797
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Evasion of gaseous carbon (C) from streams is often poorly quantified in landscape C budgets. Even though the potential importance of the capillary network of streams as C conduits across the land-water-atmosphere interfaces is sometimes mentioned, low-order streams are often left out of budget estimates due to being poorly characterized in terms of gas exchange and even areal surface coverage. We show that evasion of C is greater than all the total dissolved C (both organic and inorganic) exported downstream in the waters of a boreal landscape. In this study evasion of carbon dioxide (CO2) from running waters within a 67 km2 boreal catchment was studied. During a four year period (2006-2009) 13 streams were sampled on 104 different occasions for dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC). From a locally determined model of gas exchange properties, we estimated the daily CO2 evasion with a high-resolution (5×5 m) grid based stream evasion model comprising the entire ~100 km stream network. Despite the low areal coverage of stream surface the evasion of CO2 from the stream network constituted 53% (5.0 (±1.8) g C m−2 yr−1) of the entire stream C flux (9.6 (±2.4) g C m−2 yr−1) (lateral as DIC, DOC and vertical as CO2). In addition, 72% of the total CO2 loss took place already in the 1st and 2nd order streams. This study demonstrates the importance of including CO2 evasion from low-order boreal streams into landscape C budgets since it more than doubled the magnitude of the aquatic conduit for C from this landscape. Neglecting this term will consequently result in an overestimation of the terrestrial C sink strength in the boreal landscape.
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- Wallin, Marcus, et al.
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Temporal and spatial variability of dissolved inorganic carbon in a boreal stream network: Concentrations and downstream fluxes
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. - 2169-8953 .- 2169-8961. ; 115, s. G02014-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Carbon dioxide (CO(2)) and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentrations and export were analyzed throughout a 67 km(2) boreal stream network in northern Sweden. 700 DIC and CO(2) samples from 14 subcatchments were collected in 2006 and 2007. All sites were consistently supersaturated in CO(2) with respect to the atmosphere. Temporal variability of DIC and CO(2) concentration was best correlated with discharge, with concentrations generally diluting at high discharge. However, the variability in CO(2) concentration was also dependent on the specific pH range of the stream, as variability was greatest in acidic headwater streams and lowest in larger circumneutral streams. In the larger ones the increase in the CO(2) proportion of DIC at increased discharge counteracts the dilution of CO(2). The shift toward proportionally more CO(2) of the DIC at higher discharge is caused by decline in pH. Spatial patterns showed that DIC and CO(2) concentrations were best correlated with peatland coverage of the subcatchment. The highest concentrations were found in headwater streams draining peatlands. The downstream export of DIC from the catchment outlet constitutes 19% of the total downstream export of carbon (DIC + DOC), or 0.7 (+/-0.09) g C m(-2) yr(-1). This study demonstrates the importance of including fluvial fluxes of inorganic carbon in landscape carbon budgets via runoff, and also highlights the need to account for stream evasion of CO(2) to the atmosphere in such estimates since it can be larger than the downstream DIC export.
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- Ågren, Anneli, et al.
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Can the heterogeneity in stream dissolved organic carbon be explained by contributing landscape elements?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Biogeosciences. - : Copernicus GmbH. - 1726-4170 .- 1726-4189. ; 11, s. 1199-1213
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The controls on stream dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations were investigated in a 68 km(2) catchment by applying a landscape-mixing model to test if downstream concentrations could be predicted from contributing landscape elements. The landscape-mixing model reproduced the DOC concentration well throughout the stream network during times of high and intermediate discharge. The landscape-mixing model approach is conceptually simple and easy to apply, requiring relatively few field measurements and minimal parameterisation. Our interpretation is that the higher degree of hydrological connectivity during high flows, combined with shorter stream residence times, increased the predictive power of this whole watershed-based mixing model. The model was also useful for providing a baseline for residual analysis, which highlighted areas for further conceptual model development. The residual analysis indicated areas of the stream network that were not well represented by simple mixing of headwaters, as well as flow conditions during which simple mixing based on head-water watershed characteristics did not apply. Specifically, we found that during periods of baseflow the larger valley streams had much lower DOC concentrations than would be predicted by simple mixing. Longer stream residence times during baseflow and changing hydrological flow paths were suggested as potential reasons for this pattern. This study highlights how a simple landscape-mixing model can be used for predictions as well as providing a baseline for residual analysis, which suggest potential mechanisms to be further explored using more focused field and process-based modelling studies.
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- Ågren, Anneli, et al.
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Modeling stream dissolved organic carbon concentrations during spring flood in the boreal forest : A simple empirical approach for regional predictions
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Geophysical Research. - 0148-0227 .- 2156-2202. ; 115
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration are clearly seen for streams in which chemistry is measured on a high-frequency/episode basis, but these high-frequency data are not available in long-term monitoring programs. Here we develop statistical models to predict DOC concentrations during spring flood from easily available geographic information system data and base flow chemistry. Two response variables were studied, the extreme DOC concentration and the concentration during peak flood. Ninety-seven streams in boreal Scandinavia in two different ecoregions with substantially different mean water chemistry and landscape characteristics (covering a large climatic gradient) were used to construct models where 56% of the extreme DOC concentration and 63% of the concentration during peak flood were explained by altitude. This highlights important regional drivers (gradients in altitude, runoff, precipitation, temperature) of material flux. Spring flood extreme DOC concentration could be predicted from only base flow chemistry (r(2) = 0.71) or from landscape data (r(2) = 0 .74) but combining them increased the proportion of explained variance to 87%. The "best" model included base flow DOC (positive), mean annual runoff (negative), and wetland coverage (positive). The root mean square error was 1.18 mg L-1 for both response variables. The different ecoregions were successfully combined into the same regression models, yielding a single approach that works across much of boreal Scandinavia.
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- Ågren, Anneli, et al.
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Sensitivity of pH in a boreal stream network to a potential decrease in base cations caused by forest harvest
- 2010
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Ingår i: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. - 0706-652X .- 1205-7533. ; 67, s. 1116-1125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased forest harvest with more whole-tree utilization can decrease base cations (BC) in soils and stream runoff. This paper analyses how reducing stream BC changes the capacity of a boreal stream network to buffer pH changes. We estimated change in stream pH during spring snowmelt in 60 locations throughout a 68 km2 boreal catchment in northern Sweden with different scenarios of BC removal from stream water ranging from 10 to 50 mequiv. .L(-1). The pH decreased in all scenarios, and if BC decreased by 50 mequiv. .L(-1), stream length with pH above the acid threshold pH 5 during spring snowmelt decreased from 82% to 44% of the stream network, whereas the stream length with pH above 5.5 decreased from 60% to 10%. The pH sensitivity of different stream reaches to reductions in BC was positively related to the slope of the catchment, forest cover, and forested mires, whereas it was negatively related to the percentage of agricultural fields. Because the long-term effect of different forestry practices on stream BC is unclear, there is all the more reason to evaluate BC sensitivity before, rather than after, eventual problems arise.
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