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Sci Total Environ. 2020 Apr 15;713:136619. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136619. Epub 2020 Jan 11.

The interruption of longitudinal hydrological connectivity causes delayed responses in dissolved organic matter.

The Science of the total environment

Verónica Granados, Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas, Rebeca Arias-Real, Biel Obrador, Astrid Harjung, Andrea Butturini

Affiliations

  1. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal; Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S), University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal.
  3. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  4. Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

PMID: 31958729 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136619

Abstract

Hydrology is the main driver of dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams. However, it is still unclear how the timing and the spatial variation in flow connectivity affect the dynamics of DOM and inorganic solutes. This study focuses on the impact of flow cessation on the temporal and spatial heterogeneity of DOM quantity and quality along an intermittent stream. We monitored a headwater intermittent stream at high spatial and temporal frequencies during a summer drying episode and analysed dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and its spectroscopic properties, inorganic solutes and dissolved CO

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Keywords: DOC; Dry period; Fragmentation; Intermittent streams; Isolated pools

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest All authors agree with the content of the manuscript and approve of its submission to Science of the Total Environment. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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