scholarly journals Modeling the Future of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Boreal Forests

Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Boreal Forests ◽  
Forest Harvesting ◽  
Boreal Streams ◽  
The Future

Climate change and forest harvesting will increase the concentration and flow of dissolved organic carbon in boreal streams.

scholarly journals Dissolved organic carbon mobilized from organic horizons of mature and harvested black spruce plots in a mesic boreal region

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-595
Author(s):  
Keri L. Bowering ◽  
Kate A. Edwards ◽  
Karen Prestegaard ◽  
Xinbiao Zhu ◽  
Susan E. Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Temperature ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Boreal Forests ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Forest Harvesting ◽  
Water Fluxes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Doc Flux

Abstract. Boreal forests are subject to a wide range of temporally and spatially variable environmental conditions driven by season, climate, and disturbances such as forest harvesting and climate change. We captured dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from surface organic (O) horizons in a boreal forest hillslope using passive pan lysimeters in order to identify controls and hot moments of DOC mobilization from this key C source. We specifically addressed (1) how DOC fluxes from O horizons vary on a weekly to seasonal basis in forest and paired harvested plots and (2) how soil temperature, soil moisture, and water input relate to DOC flux trends in these plots over time. The total annual DOC flux from O horizons contain contributions from both vertical and lateral flow and was 30 % greater in the harvested plots than in the forest plots (54 g C m−2 vs. 38 g C m−2, respectively; p=0.008). This was despite smaller aboveground C inputs and smaller soil organic carbon stocks in the harvested plots but analogous to larger annual O horizon water fluxes measured in the harvested plots. Water input, measured as rain, throughfall, and/or snowmelt depending on season and plot type, was positively correlated to variations in O horizon water fluxes and DOC fluxes within the study year. Soil temperature was positively correlated to temporal variations of DOC concentration ([DOC]) of soil water and negatively correlated with water fluxes, but no relationship existed between soil temperature and DOC fluxes at the weekly to monthly scale. The relationship between water input to soil and DOC fluxes was seasonally dependent in both plot types. In summer, a water limitation on DOC flux existed where weekly periods of no flux alternated with periods of large fluxes at high DOC concentrations. This suggests that DOC fluxes were water-limited and that increased water fluxes over this period result in proportional increases in DOC fluxes. In contrast, a flushing of DOC from O horizons (observed as decreasing DOC concentrations) occurred during increasing water input and decreasing soil temperature in autumn, prior to snowpack development. Soils of both plot types remained snow-covered all winter, which protected soils from frost and limited percolation. The largest water input and soil water fluxes occurred during spring snowmelt but did not result in the largest fluxes of DOC, suggesting a production limitation on DOC fluxes over both the wet autumn and snowmelt periods. While future increases in annual precipitation could lead to increased DOC fluxes, the magnitude of this response will be dependent on the type and intra-annual distribution of this increased precipitation.

scholarly journals Local‐ and landscape‐scale impacts of clear‐cuts and climate change on surface water dissolved organic carbon in boreal forests

2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (11) ◽  
pp. 2402-2426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Oni ◽  
Tejshree Tiwari ◽  
José L. J. Ledesma ◽  
Anneli M. Ågren ◽  
Claudia Teutschbein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Boreal Forests ◽  
Landscape Scale

Climate change effects on peatland decomposition and porewater dissolved organic carbon biogeochemistry

2016 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Dieleman ◽  
Zoë Lindo ◽  
James W. McLaughlin ◽  
Aaron E. Craig ◽  
Brian A. Branfireun
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Carbon Biogeochemistry

scholarly journals Modeling dissolved organic carbon in temperate forest soils: TRIPLEX-DOC model development and validation

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 867-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Wu ◽  
C. Peng ◽  
T. R. Moore ◽  
D. Hua ◽  
C. Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Forest Soils ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Forest Harvesting ◽  
Biogeochemical Model ◽  
White Pine ◽  
C Cycling ◽  
Development And Validation

Abstract. Even though dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is the most active carbon (C) cycling in soil organic carbon (SOC) pools, it receives little attention from the global C budget. DOC fluxes are critical to aquatic ecosystem inputs and contribute to the C balance of terrestrial ecosystems, but few ecosystem models have attempted to integrate DOC dynamics into terrestrial C cycling. This study introduces a new process-based model, TRIPLEX-DOC, that is capable of estimating DOC dynamics in forest soils by incorporating both ecological drivers and biogeochemical processes. TRIPLEX-DOC was developed from Forest-DNDC, a biogeochemical model simulating C and nitrogen (N) dynamics, coupled with a new DOC process module that predicts metabolic transformations, sorption/desorption, and DOC leaching in forest soils. The model was validated against field observations of DOC concentrations and fluxes at white pine forest stands located in southern Ontario, Canada. The model was able to simulate seasonal dynamics of DOC concentrations and the magnitudes observed within different soil layers, as well as DOC leaching in the age sequence of these forests. Additionally, TRIPLEX-DOC estimated the effect of forest harvesting on DOC leaching, with a significant increase following harvesting, illustrating that land use change is of critical importance in regulating DOC leaching in temperate forests as an important source of C input to aquatic ecosystems.

scholarly journals Minimal Evidence of Permafrost Carbon in Siberia’s Kolyma River

Eos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Cook
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Arctic Rivers ◽  
New Research ◽  
Minimal Evidence ◽  
Kolyma River

New research finds that Arctic rivers currently transport limited permafrost-derived dissolved organic carbon, which has implications for understanding the region’s changing carbon cycle—and its potential to accelerate climate change.

scholarly journals Hydrological controls on DOC : nitrate resource stoichiometry in a lowland, agricultural catchment, southern UK

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Heppell ◽  
Andrew Binley ◽  
Mark Trimmer ◽  
Tegan Darch ◽  
Ashley Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
River Water ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Lowland River ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Molar Ratios ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The role that hydrology plays in governing the interactions between dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen in rivers draining lowland, agricultural landscapes is currently poorly understood, yet important to assess given the potential changes to production and delivery of DOC and nitrate arising from climate change. We measured DOC and nitrate concentrations in river water of six reaches of the lowland River Hampshire Avon (Wiltshire, southern UK) in order to quantify the relationship between Baseflow Index (BFI) and DOC : nitrate molar ratios across contrasting geologies (Chalk, Greensand and clay). We found a significant positive relationship between nitrate and Baseflow Index (p 

scholarly journals Summer rainfall dissolved organic carbon, solute, and sediment fluxes in a small Arctic coastal catchment on Herschel Island (Yukon Territory, Canada)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 750-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Coch ◽  
Scott F. Lamoureux ◽  
Christian Knoblauch ◽  
Isabell Eischeid ◽  
Michael Fritz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
Summer Rainfall ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Rainfall Frequency ◽  
The Future ◽  
Matter Flux

Coastal ecosystems in the Arctic are affected by climate change. As summer rainfall frequency and intensity are projected to increase in the future, more organic matter, nutrients and sediment could be mobilized and transported into the coastal nearshore zones. However, knowledge of current processes and future changes is limited. We investigated streamflow dynamics and the impacts of summer rainfall on lateral fluxes in a small coastal catchment on Herschel Island in the western Canadian Arctic. For the summer monitoring periods of 2014–2016, mean dissolved organic matter flux over 17 days amounted to 82.7 ± 30.7 kg km−2 and mean total dissolved solids flux to 5252 ± 1224 kg km−2. Flux of suspended sediment was 7245 kg km−2 in 2015, and 369 kg km−2 in 2016. We found that 2.0% of suspended sediment was composed of particulate organic carbon. Data and hysteresis analysis suggest a limited supply of sediments; their interannual variability is most likely caused by short-lived localized disturbances. In contrast, our results imply that dissolved organic carbon is widely available throughout the catchment and exhibits positive linear relationship with runoff. We hypothesize that increased projected rainfall in the future will result in a similar increase of dissolved organic carbon fluxes.

Response of Dissolved Organic Carbon following Forest Harvesting in a Boreal Forest

AMBIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 381-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hjalmar Laudon ◽  
Johannes Hedtjärn ◽  
Jakob Schelker ◽  
Kevin Bishop ◽  
Rasmus Sørensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Dissolved Organic Carbon ◽  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Forest Harvesting
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