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The dominant role of sunlight in degrading winter dissolved organic matter from a thermokarst lake in a subarctic peatland
Flora Mazoyer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire de limnologie nordique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Québec, QC, Canada
Centre for Northern Studies, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
Canada
Isabelle Laurion
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire de limnologie nordique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Québec, QC, Canada
Centre for Northern Studies, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
Canada
Milla Rautio
Centre for Northern Studies, Université Laval, Québec, QC,
Canada
Laboratoire des sciences aquatiques, Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Québec, QC, Canada
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In the Arctic, thawing permafrost creates many small ponds that release greenhouse gases. We collected water from 15 ponds in the Canadian Arctic and conducted a 188–day experiment to see how bacteria use carbon in summer. They consumed about one-third of the available carbon in 100 days, and adding nutrients made no difference. Since they prefer fresh plant matter, longer growing seasons could boost gas emissions from new plant carbon as the warming Arctic landscape continues to change.
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This dataset includes monthly measurements of carbon dioxide and methane exchange between land, water, and the atmosphere from over 1,000 sites in Arctic and boreal regions. It combines measurements from a variety of ecosystems, including wetlands, forests, tundra, lakes, and rivers, gathered by over 260 researchers from 1984–2024. This dataset can be used to improve and reduce uncertainty in carbon budgets in order to strengthen our understanding of climate feedbacks in a warming world.
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Small thermokarst lakes release greenhouse gases (GHGs) as permafrost thaws, but most studies focus on diurnal measurements, potentially overlooking significant variations. We measured GHG fluxes from two lakes in Nunavik over two summers – one colder, one warmer – alongside 2 years of continuous water column monitoring. Fluxes were higher in the warmer summer, with strong day–night differences. Our findings show that accurate GHG estimates require full diel measurements and seasonal considerations.
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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.
Dissolved organic matter collected at the end of winter from a peatland thermokarst lake was...
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