Organic matter degradation across ecosystem boundaries: the need for a unified conceptualization

DN Kothawala, AM Kellerman, N Catalán… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
The global carbon cycle connects organic matter (OM) pools in soil, freshwater, and marine
ecosystems with the atmosphere, thereby regulating their size and reactivity. Due to the …

Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems

M Berggren, F Guillemette, M Bieroza, I Buffam… - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite our growing understanding of the global carbon cycle, scientific consensus on the
drivers and mechanisms that control dissolved organic carbon (DOC) turnover in aquatic …

Global perturbation of organic carbon cycling by river damming

T Maavara, R Lauerwald, P Regnier… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The damming of rivers represents one of the most far-reaching human modifications of the
flows of water and associated matter from land to sea. Dam reservoirs are hotspots of …

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 …

Controls of dissolved organic matter quality: Evidence from a large‐scale boreal lake survey

DN Kothawala, CA Stedmon, RA Müller… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Inland waters transport large amounts of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from terrestrial
environments to the oceans, but DOM also reacts en route, with substantial water column …

Greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater reservoirs: what does the atmosphere see?

YT Prairie, J Alm, J Beaulieu, N Barros, T Battin, J Cole… - Ecosystems, 2018 - Springer
Freshwater reservoirs are a known source of greenhouse gas (GHG) to the atmosphere, but
their quantitative significance is still only loosely constrained. Although part of this …

Human activities cause distinct dissolved organic matter composition across freshwater ecosystems

CJ Williams, PC Frost… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition in freshwater ecosystems is influenced by the
interactions among physical, chemical, and biological processes that are controlled, at one …

A unified theory for organic matter accumulation

EJ Zakem, BB Cael, NM Levine - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Organic matter constitutes a key reservoir in global elemental cycles. However, our
understanding of the dynamics of organic matter and its accumulation remains incomplete …

Hydrophilic species are the most biodegradable components of freshwater dissolved organic matter

C Grasset, M Groeneveld, LJ Tranvik… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aquatic dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a crucial component of the global carbon cycle,
and the extent to which DOM escapes mineralization is important for the transport of organic …

Partial coupling and differential regulation of biologically and photochemically labile dissolved organic carbon across boreal aquatic networks

JF Lapierre, PA Del Giorgio - Biogeosciences, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
Despite the rapidly increasing volume of research on the biological and photochemical
degradation of DOC (dissolved organic carbon) in aquatic environments, little is known of …