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 …

Sentinel responses of Arctic freshwater systems to climate: linkages, evidence, and a roadmap for future research

JE Saros, CD Arp, F Bouchard, J Comte… - Arctic …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
While the sentinel nature of freshwater systems is now well recognized, widespread
integration of freshwater processes and patterns into our understanding of broader climate …

How humans alter dissolved organic matter composition in freshwater: relevance for the Earth's biogeochemistry

MA Xenopoulos, RT Barnes, KS Boodoo, D Butman… - Biogeochemistry, 2021 - Springer
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is recognized for its importance in freshwater ecosystems,
but historical reliance on DOM quantity rather than indicators of DOM composition has led to …

Recent trends in the chemistry of major northern rivers signal widespread Arctic change

SE Tank, JW McClelland, RGM Spencer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rivers integrate processes occurring throughout their watersheds and are therefore
sentinels of change across broad spatial scales. River chemistry also regulates ecosystem …

Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach

SE Tank, JE Vonk, MA Walvoord… - Permafrost and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost thaw has been widely observed to alter the biogeochemistry of recipient aquatic
ecosystems. However, research from various regions has shown considerable variation in …

Mobilization of aged and biolabile soil carbon by tropical deforestation

TW Drake, K Van Oost, M Barthel, M Bauters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In the mostly pristine Congo Basin, agricultural land-use change has intensified in recent
years. One potential and understudied consequence of this deforestation and conversion to …

Pan‐Arctic riverine dissolved organic matter: Synchronous molecular stability, shifting sources and subsidies

MI Behnke, JW McClelland, SE Tank… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is dramatically altering Arctic ecosystems, leading to shifts in the sources,
composition, and eventual fate of riverine dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the Arctic …

Hotspots of riverine greenhouse gas (CH4, CO2, N2O) emissions from Qinghai Lake Basin on the northeast Tibetan Plateau

P Lin, Z Du, L Wang, J Liu, Q Xu, J Du… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Evasion of greenhouse gases (GHG) from fluvial systems is now recognized as a significant
component of the global carbon cycle. However, the magnitudes of GHG fluxes remain …

Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes

PJ Mann, J Strauss, J Palmtag, K Dowdy, O Ogneva… - Ambio, 2022 - Springer
Arctic warming is causing ancient perennially frozen ground (permafrost) to thaw, resulting
in ground collapse, and resha** of landscapes. This threatens Arctic peoples' …

Emerging dominance of summer rainfall driving High Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity

CR Beel, JK Heslop, JF Orwin, MA Pope… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hydrological transformations induced by climate warming are causing Arctic annual fluvial
energy to shift from skewed (snowmelt-dominated) to multimodal (snowmelt-and rainfall …