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ArticleNature communications2024

Treeline displacement may affect lake dissolved organic matter processing at high latitudes and altitudes.

Núria Catalán, Carina Rofner, Charles Verpoorter, María Teresa Pérez, Thorsten Dittmar, Lars Tranvik, Ruben Sommaruga, Hannes Peter

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 6 countries.

Núria CatalánLimnology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. nuria.catalan@idaea.csic.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-4190
Carina RofnerLake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Charles VerpoorterUniversity Littoral Côte d'Opale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Lille, IRD, UMR -LOG-Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, F-Wimereux, France.
María Teresa PérezLake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Thorsten DittmarInstitute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Lars TranvikLimnology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3509-8266
Ruben SommarugaLake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1055-2461
Hannes PeterLake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. hannes.peter@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-3082
Universität Innsbruck · ATUppsala University · SECarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · DECentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate change induced shifts in treeline position, both towards higher altitudes and latitudes induce changes in soil organic matter. Eventually, soil organic matter is transported to alpine and subarctic lakes with yet unknown consequences for dissolved organic matter (DOM) diversity and processing. Here, we experimentally investigate the consequences of treeline shifts by amending subarctic and temperate alpine lake water with soil-derived DOM from above and below the treeline. We use ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) to track molecular DOM diversity (i.e., chemodiversity), estimate DOM decay and measure bacterial growth efficiency. In both lakes, soil-derived DOM from below the treeline increases lake DOM chemodiversity mainly through the enrichment with polyphenolic and highly unsaturated compounds. These compositional changes are associated with reductions in bulk and compound-level DOM reactivity and reduced bacterial growth efficiency. Our results suggest that treeline advancement has the potential to enrich a large number of lake ecosystems with less biodegradable DOM, affecting bacterial community function and potentially altering the biogeochemical cycling of carbon in lakes at high latitudes and altitudes.

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Dissolved Organic MatterLakesAltitudeEcosystemSoilDissolved Organic MatterSoil

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PMID38531850
PMCPMC10965997
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