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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 18, Pages 10297-10306Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02163
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41621002, 41807362, 41661134036]
- Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu in China [BK20181104]
- NIGLAS Cross-functional Innovation Teams [NIGLAS2016TD01]
- NIGLAS Foundation [NIGLAS2017QD08]
- MARS project (Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water Resources under multiple Stress) - seventh EU Framework Programme, Theme 6 (Environment including Climate Change) [603378]
- AU Centre for Water Technology (WATEC)
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1157490]
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Inland waters play an important role for the storage of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) and outgassing of methane (CH4). However, to date, linkages between the optical dynamics of CDOM and dissolved CH4 levels remain largely unknown. We used multi-year (2012-2014) seasonal data series collected from Lake Taihu and 51 connecting channels to investigate how CDOM optical dynamics may impact dissolved CH4 levels in the lake. High dissolved CH4 in the northwestern inflowing river mouths coincided with high underwater UV-vis light availability, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), chemical oxygen demand (COD), DOM aromaticity, terrestrial humic-rich fluorescence, in situ measured terrestrial CDOM, depleted dissolved oxygen (DO), stable isotopic delta H-2, and delta O-18 compared with other lake regions. Our results further revealed positive relationships between dissolved CH4 and CDOM absorption at 350 nm, i.e. a(350), COD, DOC, terrestrial humic-rich fluorophores, and DOM aromaticity, and negative relationships between dissolved CH4 and DO, delta H-2, and delta O-18. The central lake samples showed a major contribution of terrestrial-sourced molecular formulas to the ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry data, suggesting the presence of allochthonous DOM sources even here. We conclude that an elevated terrestrial CDOM input likely enhances dissolved CH4 levels in Lake Taihu.
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