SwePub
Sök i LIBRIS databas

  Extended search

id:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:uu-334511"
 

Search: id:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:uu-334511" > Widespread release ...

  • 1 of 1
  • Previous record
  • Next record
  •    To hitlist

Widespread release of dissolved organic carbon from anoxic boreal lake sediments

Peter, Simone (author)
Uppsala universitet,Limnologi
Agstam, Oskar (author)
Uppsala universitet,Limnologi
Sobek, Sebastian (author)
Uppsala universitet,Limnologi
 (creator_code:org_t)
2017-05-08
2017
English.
In: Inland Waters. - : FRESHWATER BIOLOGICAL ASSOC. - 2044-2041 .- 2044-205X. ; 7:2, s. 151-163
  • Journal article (peer-reviewed)
Abstract Subject headings
Close  
  • Sediments in boreal lakes are important components of the carbon cycle because they receive and store large amounts of organic carbon (OC) and at the same time are a source of greenhouse gases. Under anoxic conditions, sediment OC can be lost through dissolution from the solid phase and subsequent diffusion to the water column. Although this process may have implications for sediment OC budgets, it has yet to be studied systematically. We combined laboratory sediment incubation experiments from 4 boreal lakes in central Sweden that differed widely in their biogeochemical conditions with data from the Swedish monitoring program covering >100 lakes to analyze the frequency of occurrence of sediment DOC loss in boreal lakes and identify lake characteristics and the conditions related to high DOC fluxes from anoxic sediments. We found DOC diffusion from anoxic sediments in all the anoxic sediment incubations but at different mean rates (0.7-3.7 mmol m(-2) d(-1)). Similarly, 16 of 17 of the monitoring lakes that developed anoxic bottom water exhibited an increase in bottom-water DOC concentration, corresponding to a mean (and standard deviation) DOC diffusion flux from anoxic sediment of 11.1 (35.4) mmol m(-2) d(-1). The observed variability between lakes was related to particularly large DOC fluxes in humic-rich lakes, which we attribute to their low pH and high share of terrestrial OC favoring the formation of OC-iron aggregates. Accordingly, increasing pH might facilitate the dissolution of sediment OC because high dissolved OC fluxes from anoxic sediments were accompanied by high microbial iron and sulfate reduction, resulting in concomitant pH increase.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Anoxia
boreal lakes
iron
organic carbon
reductive dissolution
sediment diffusion

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)
art (subject category)

Find in a library

To the university's database

  • 1 of 1
  • Previous record
  • Next record
  •    To hitlist

Find more in SwePub

By the author/editor
Peter, Simone
Agstam, Oskar
Sobek, Sebastian
About the subject
NATURAL SCIENCES
NATURAL SCIENCES
and Earth and Relate ...
and Environmental Sc ...
NATURAL SCIENCES
NATURAL SCIENCES
and Biological Scien ...
Articles in the publication
Inland Waters
By the university
Uppsala University

Search outside SwePub

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.

 
pil uppåt Close

Copy and save the link in order to return to this view