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

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1101-1114

  Kothawala, Dolly N ^a   Stedmon, Colin A ^b   Müller, Roger A ^a   Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A ^a   Köhler, Stephan J ^c   Tranvik, Lars J ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal lakes; Climate; Dissolved organic matter; Fluorescence spectroscopy; PARAFAC components; Precipitation; Water retention times

Indexed keywords

BOREAL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LAKE WATER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY; WATER RETENTION;

SWEDEN;

PROTEIN;

ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; LAKE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; LAKES; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896720169     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12488     Document Type: Article

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