Mineralization of autochthonous particulate organic carbon is a fast channel of organic matter turnover in Germany's largest drinking water reservoir

Dordoni, Marlene; Seewald, Michael; Rinke, Karsten; Friese, Kurt; van Geldern, Robert; Schmidmeier, Jakob; Barth, Johannes A. C.

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Mineralization of autochthonous particulate organic carbon is a fast channel of organic matter turnover in Germany's largest drinking water reservoir

Marlene Dordoni, Michael Seewald, Karsten Rinke, Kurt Friese, Robert van Geldern, Jakob Schmidmeier, and Johannes A. C. Barth

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