Trade-offs Between Light and Nutrient Availability Across Gradients of Dissolved Organic Carbon Lead to Spatially and Temporally Variable Responses of Lake Phytoplankton Biomass to Browning

• Published in: Ecosystems
• Main Authors: Isles, Peter D. F., Creed, Irena F., Jonsson, Anders, Bergström, Ann-Kristin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap 2021
• Subjects: Boreal; Browning; Chlorophyll-a; DOC; DOC:TN; DOC:TP; Lake; Stoichiometry; Subarctic; Sweden; Ecology; Ekologi; Environmental Sciences; Miljövetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-182175; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00619-7

Northern lakes are experiencing widespread increases in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) that are likely to lead to changes in pelagic phytoplankton biomass. Pelagic phytoplankton biomass responds to trade-offs between light and nutrient availability. However, the influence of DOC light absorbing prop...