Distinct optical chemistry of dissolved organic matter in urban pond ecosystems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  McEnroe, Nicola A ^a   Williams, Clayton J ^a   Xenopoulos, Marguerite A ^a   Porcal, Petr ^b   Frost, Paul C ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HUMUS; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POND; SOLAR RADIATION; URBAN AREA;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PONDS;

EID: 84892408466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080334     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Vitousek PM, Mooney HA, Lubchenco J, Melillo JM (1997) Human domination of Earth's ecosystems. Science 277: 494-499. doi:10.1126/science.277.5325.494.
2. Lee JG, Heaney JP (2003) Estimation of urban imperviousness and its impacts on stormwater systems. J Water Resour Plan Manag 129: 419-426. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(2003)129:5(419).
3. Wissmar RC, Timm RK, Logsdon MG (2004) Effects of changing forest and impervious land covers on discharge characteristics of watersheds. Environ Manag 34: 91-98. PubMed: 15088123.
4. Crowe AS, Rochfort Q, Exall K, Marsalek J (2007) Controlling urban stormwater pollution by constructed wetlands: a Canadian perspective. Int J Water 3: 214-230. doi:10.1504/IJW.2007.015215.
5. Brand AB, Snodgrass JW (2010) Value of artificial habitats for amphibian reproduction in altered landscapes. Conserv Biol 24(1): 295-301. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01301.x. PubMed: 19681986.
6. Hamer AJ, Parris KM (2011) Local and landscape determinants of amphibian communities in urban ponds. Ecol Appl 21: 378-390. doi:10.1890/10-0390.1. PubMed: 21563570.
7. Williams CJ, Frost PC, Xenopoulos MA (2013) Beyond best management practices: pelagic biogeochemical dynamics in urban stormwater ponds. Ecol Appl, 23: 1384-95. doi:101890/12-08251. PubMed: 24147410.
8. Downing JA (2010) Emerging global role of small lakes and ponds: little things mean a lot. Limnetica 29(1): 9-24.
9. Einsele G, Yan J, Hinderer M (2001) Atmospheric carbon burial in modern lake basins and its significance for the global carbon budget. Glob Planet Change 30: 167-195. doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(01)00105-9.
10. Downing JA, Prairie YT, Cole JJ, Duarte CM, Tranvik LJ et al. (2006) The global abundance and size distribution of lakes ponds and impoundments. Limnol Oceanogr 51: 2388-2397. doi:10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.2388.
11. Downing JA, Cole JJ, Middelburg J, Striegl RG, Duarte CM et al. (2008) Sediment carbon burial in agriculturally eutrophic impoundments over the last century. Global Biogoechemical Cycles 22: GB1018 doi:10.1029/2006GB002854.
12. Caraco NF, Cole JJ (2004) When terrestrial organic matter is sent down the river: importance of allochthonous C inputs to the metabolism in lakes and rivers. In: A PolisME Power. Food webs at the landscape level. Chicago University of Chicago Press. pp. 301-316.
13. Hanson PC, Pollard AI, Bade DL, Predick K, Carpenter SR et al. (2004) A model of carbon evasion and sedimentation in temperate lakes. Glob Change Biol 10: 1285-1298. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00805.x.
14. Prairie YT, Bird DF, Cole JJ (2002) The summer metabolic balance in the epilimnion of southeastern Quebec lakes. Limnol Oceanogr 47: 316-321. doi:10.4319/lo.2002.47.1.0316.
15. Kritzberg ES, Cole JJ, Pace MM, Granéli W (2005) Does autochthonous primary production drive variability in bacterial metabolism and growth efficiency in lakes dominated by terrestrial C inputs? Aquat Microb Ecol 38: 103-111. doi:10.3354/ame038103.
16. Hook AM, Yeakley A (2005) Stormflow dynamics of dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen in a small urban watershed. Biogeochemistry 75(3): 409-431. doi:10.1007/s10533-005-1860-4.
17. Paul MJ, Meyer JL (2001) Streams in the urban landscape. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 32: 333-365. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.32.081501.114040.
18. Walsh CJ, Roy AH, Feminella JW, Cottingham PD, Groffman PM et al. (2005) The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and search for a cure. J North Benthol Soc 24: 706-723. doi:10.1899/0887-3593(2005)024
19. Williams CJ, Yamashita Y, Wilson HF, Jaffé R, Xenopoulos MA (2010) Unraveling the role of landuse and microbial activity in shaping dissolved organic matter characteristics in streams. Limnol Oceanogr 55: 1159-1171. doi:10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1159.
20. Wilson HF, Xenopoulos MA (2009) Effects of agricultural land use on the composition of fluvial dissolved organic matter. Nat Geosci 2: 37-41. doi:101038/ngeo391.
21. Baker A (2001) Fluorescence Excitation-Emission matrix characterization of some sewage-impacted rivers. Environ Sci Technol 35: 948-953. doi:10.1021/es000177t. PubMed: 11351540.
22. McKnight DM, Aitken GR, Smith RL (1991) Aquatic fulvic acids in microbially based ecosystems: Results from two desert lakes in Antarctica. Limnol Oceanogr 36: 998-1006. doi:10.4319/lo.1991.36.5.0998.
23. Bertilsson S, Jones JL (2003) Supply of dissolved organic matter to aquatic ecosystems: Autochthonous sources In: SEG FindlayRL Sinsabaugh. Aquatic Ecosystems: Interactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter. Academic Press. pp. 3-25.
24. Tranvik LJ, Bertilsson S (2001) Contrasting effects of solar UV radiation on dissolved organic sources for bacterial growth. Ecol Lett 4: 458-463. doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00245.x.
25. Anesio AM, Li WG, Aiken GR, Kieber DJ, Mopper K (2005) Effect of humic substance photodegradation on bacterial growth and respiration in lake water. Appl Environ Microbiol 71: 6267-6275. doi:10.1128/AEM.71.10.6267-6275.2005. PubMed: 16204548.
26. Bertilsson S, Tranvik LJ (2000) Photochemical transformation of dissolved organic matter in lakes. Limnol Oceanogr 45: 753-762. doi:10.4319/lo.2000.45.4. 0753.
27. Obernosterer I, Reitner B, Herndl GJ (1999) Contrasting effects of solar radiation on dissolved organic matter and its bioavailability to marine bacterioplankton. Limnol Oceanogr 44: 1645- 1654. doi:10.4319/lo.1999.44.7.1645.
28. Obernosterer I, Sempere R, Herndl GJ (2001) Ultraviolet radiation induces reversal of the bioavailability of DOM to marine bacterioplankton. Aquat Microbiol 24: 61-68. doi:10.3354/ame024061.
29. Kaiser E, Sulzberger B (2004) Phototransformation of riverine dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the presence of abundant iron: Effect on DOM bioavailability. Limnol Oceanogr 49: 540-555. doi:10.4319/lo.2004.49.2.0540.
30. Mayer LM, Schick LL, Hardy KR, Estapa ML (2009) Photodissolution and other photochemical chances upon irradiation of algal detritus. Limnol Oceanogr 54: 1688-1698. doi:10.4319/lo.2009.54.5.1688.
31. McEnroe NA, Buttle JM, Pick FR, Xenopoulos MA, Frost PC (2012) Thermal and chemical stratification of urban ponds: Are they 'completely mixed reactors'? Urban Ecosyst 16: 327-339.
32. Kirk JT (1994) Light and Photosynthesis in Aquatic Ecosystems. Cambridge University Press.
33. Maurice PA, Cabaniss SE, Drummond J, Ito E (2002) Hydrogeochemical controls on the variations in chemical characteristics of natural organic matter at a small freshwater wetland. Chem Geol 187: 59-77. doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(02) 00016-5.
34. Cuthbert ID, del Giorgio PA (1992) Toward a standard method of measuring color in freshwater. Limnol Oceanogr 37: 1319-1326. doi:10.4319/lo.1992.37.6. 1319.
35. Mobed JJ, Hemmingsen SL, Autry JL, McGown LB (1996) Fluorescence characterisation of IHSS humic substances: Total luminescence spectra with absorbance correction. Environ Sci Technol 30: 3061-3065. doi:10.1021/es960132l.
36. Zsolnay A, Baigar E, Jimenez M, Steinweg B, Saccomandi F (1999) Differentiating with fluorescence spectroscopy the sources of dissolved organic matter in soils subjected to drying. Chemosphere 38: 45-50. doi:10.1016/S0045- 6535(98)00166-0. PubMed: 10903090.
37. Parlanti E, Worz K, Geoffroy L, Lamotte M (2000) Dissolved organic matter fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool to estimate biological activity in a coastal zone submitted to anthropogenic inputs. Org Geochem 31: 1765-1781. doi:10.1016/S0146-6380(00)00124-8.
38. Helms JR, Stubbins A, Ritchie JD, Minor EC, Kieber DJ et al. (2008) Absorption spectral slopes and slope ratios as indicators of molecular weight source and photobleaching of chromophoric dissolved organic matter. Limnol Oceanogr 53(3): 955-969. doi:10.4319/lo.2008.53.3.0955.
39. Cory RM, McKnight DM (2005) Fluorescence spectroscopy reveals ubiquitous presence of oxidised and reduced quinones in dissolved organic matter. Environ Sci Technol 39: 8142-8149. doi:10.1021/es0506962. PubMed: 16294847.
40. Petrone JB, Fellman JB, Hood E, Donn MJ, Grierson PF (2011) The origin and function of dissolved organic matter in agro-urban coastal streams. J Geophys Res 116: G01028. doi:101029/2010JG001537.
41. Stedmon CA, Markager S (2005) Resolving the variability in dissolved organic matter fluorescence in a temperate estuary and its catchment using PARAFAC analysis. Limnol Oceanogr 50: 686-697. doi:10.4319/lo.2005.50.2.0686.
42. Coble PG, Green SA, Blough NV, Gagosian RB (1990) Characterisation of dissolved organic matter in the Black Sea by fluorescence spectroscopy. Nature 348: 432-435. doi:10.1038/348432a0.
43. Maie N, Pisani O, Jaffé R (2008) Mangrove tannins in aquatic ecosystems: their fate and possible influence on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen cycling. Limnol Oceanogr 53: 160-171. doi:10.4319/lo.2008.53.1.0160.
44. Del Vecchio R, Blough NV (2002) Photobleaching of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in natural waters: kinetics and modelling. Mar Chem 78 (4): 231-253. doi:10.1016/S0304-4203(02)00036-1.
45. Porcal P, Amirbahman A, Kopáček J, Novák F, Norton SA (2009) Photochemical release of humic and fulvic acid-bound metals from simulated soil and streamwater. J Environ Monit 11: 1064-1071. doi:10.1039/b812330f. PubMed: 19436866.
46. Huguet A, Vacher L, Relexans S, Saubusse S, Froidefond JM et al. (2009) Properties of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the Gironde Estuary. Org Geochem 40: 706-719. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.03.002.
47. Carpenter SR, Cole JJ, Pace ML, Van de Bogert M, Bade DL et al. (2005) Ecosystems subsidies: Terrestrial support of aquatic food webs from 13C addition to contrasting lakes. Ecology 86: 2737-2750. doi:10.1890/04-1282.
48. Stanley EH, Powers SM, Lottig NR, Buffam I, Crawford JT (2012) Contemporary changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in human-dominated rivers: is there a role for DOC management? Freshw Biol 57: 26-42. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02613.x.
49. Osburn CL, Wigdahl CR, Frotz SC, Saros E (2011) Dissolved organic matter composition and photoreactivity in prairie lakes of the US Great Plains. Limnol Oceanogr 56(6): 2371-2390. doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2371.
50. Yamashita Y, Scinto LJ, Maie N, Jaffé R (2010) Dissolved organic matter characteristics across a subtropical wetland's landscape: Application of optical properties in the assessment of environmental dynamics. Ecosystems 13: 1006-1019. doi:10.1007/s10021-010-9370-1.
51. Porcal P, Hejzlar J, Kopacek J (2004) Seasonal and photochemical changes of DOM in an acidified forest lake and its tributaries. Aquat Sci 66: 211-222. doi:10.1007/s00027-004-0701-1.
52. Ruiz-Gonzáles C, Simó R, Sommaruga R, Gasol JM (2013) Away from darkness. A review on the effects of solar radiation on heterotrophic bacterioplankron activity. Frontiers in Microbiol. p. 4. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2013. 00131.
53. Zepp RG, Wolfe NL, Baughman GL, Hollis RC (1977) Singlet oxygen in natural waters. Nature 267: 421-423. doi:10.1038/267421a0.
54. Xenopoulos MA, Bird DF (1997) Effect of acute exposure to hydrogen peroxide on the production of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in a mesohumic lake. Photochem Photobiol 66: 471-478. doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03175.x.
55. Scully NM, Cooper WJ, Tranvik LJ (2003) Photochemical effects on microbial activity in natural waters: the interaction of reactive oxygen species and dissolved organic matter. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 46: 353-357. doi:10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00198-3. PubMed: 19719565.
56. Glaeser J, Nuss AM, Berghoff BA, Klug G (2011) Singlet oxygen stress in microorganisms. Adv Microb Physiol 58: 141-173. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-381043-4. 00004-0. PubMed: 21722793.
57. Kritzberg ES, Cole JJ, Pace MM, Granéli W (2006) Bacterial growth on allochthonous carbon in humic and nutrient enriched lakes: Results from whole lake 13C additions. Ecosystems 9: 489-499. doi:10.1007/s10021-005-0115-5.
58. Mladenov N, Huntsman-Mapila P, Wolski P, Masamba WRL, McKnight DM (2008) Dissolved organic matter accumulation reactivity and redox state in ground water of a recharge wetland. Wetlands 28: 747-759. doi:10.1672/07-140.1.
59. Wu FC, Kothawala DN, Evans RD, Dillon PJ, Cai YR (2007) Relationship between DOC concentration molecular size and fluorescence properties of DOM in a stream. Appl Geochem 22: 1659-1667. doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.03.024.
60. Frost PC, Larson JH, Johnston CA, Young KC, Maurice PA et al. (2006) Landscape predictor s of stream dissolved organic matter concentration and physicochemistry in a Lake Superior river watershed. Aquat Sci 68: 40-51. doi:10.1007/BF02508824.
61. McKnight DM, Boyer EW, Westerhoff PK, Doran PT, Kulbe T (2001) Spectroflurometric characterisation of dissolved organic matter for indication of precursor organic material and aromaticity. Limnol Oceanogr 46(1): 38-48. doi:10.4319/lo.2001.46.1.0038.
62. Chin YP, Aiken G, O'Loughlin E (1994) Molecular weight polydispersity and spectroscopic properties of aquatic humic substances. Environ Sci Technol 28: 1853-1858. doi:10.1021/es00060a015. PubMed: 22175925.
63. Chin Y-P, Aiken GR, Danielsen KM (1997) Binding of pyrene to aquatic and commercial humic substances: the role of molecular weight and aromaticity. Environ Sci Technol 31: 1630-1635. doi:10.1021/es960404k.
64. Miller MP, McKnight DM, Chapra SC, Williams MW (2009) A model of degradation and production of three pools of dissolved organic matter in an alpine lake. Limnol Oceanogr 54(6): 2213-2227. doi:10.4319/lo.2009.54.6.2213.
65. Reche I, Pace ML, Cole JJ (1999) Relationship of trophic and chemical conditions to photobleaching of dissolved organic matter in lake ecosystems. Biogeochemistry 44: 259-280. doi:10.1007/BF00996993.