Inferring past trends in lake water organic carbon concentrations in northern lakes using sediment spectroscopy

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Meyer-Jacob, Carsten, Michelutti, Neal, Paterson, Andrew M., Monteith, Don, Yang, Handong, Weckström, Jan, Smol, John P., Bindler, Richard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Ecology and Environment; Hydrology; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Changing Lake
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518226/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518226/1/N518226PP.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b03147

Changing lake water total organic carbon (TOC)concentrations are of concern for lake management because of corresponding effects on aquatic ecosystem functioning, drinking water resources and carbon cycling between land and sea. Understanding the importance of human activities on TOC changes require...