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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3959-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3959-2022
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31 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 31 Aug 2022

The dominant role of sunlight in degrading winter dissolved organic matter from a thermokarst lake in a subarctic peatland

Flora Mazoyer, Isabelle Laurion, and Milla Rautio

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Dissolved organic matter collected at the end of winter from a peatland thermokarst lake was highly transformed and degraded by sunlight, leading to bacterial stimulation and CO2 production, but a fraction was also potentially lost by photoflocculation. Over 18 days, 18 % of the incubated dissolved organic matter was lost under sunlight, while dark bacterial degradation was negligible. Sunlight could have a marked effect on carbon cycling in organic-rich thermokarst lakes after ice-off.
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