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| Biogeosciences, 5, 1615-1623, 2008 www.biogeosciences.net/5/1615/2008/ © Author(s) 2008. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Particulate organic carbon (POC) in relation to other pore water carbon fractions in drained and rewetted fens in Southern Germany 1Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Strasse 27, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany 2Ludwig-Maximilians University, Department of Geography, Luisenstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany 3Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Postfach 100164, 07701 Jena, Germany 4Vegetation Ecology, Technical University of Munich, Am Hochanger 6, 85350 Freising, Germany 5Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute for Soil Ecology, Department for Terrestrial Ecotoxicology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85758 Oberschleissheim, Germany 6Landscape Ecology, Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 5, 37077 Göttingen, Germany |  |
The main results obtained were: (1) DIC (94–280 mg C l−1) was the main C-component. (2) POC and DOC concentrations in the pore water (14–125 mg C l−1 vs. 41–95 mg C l−1) were pari passu. (3) Dissolved CH4 was the smallest C component (0.005–0.9 mg C l−1). Interestingly, about 30% of the POM particles were colonized by microbes indicating that they are active in the internal C turnover. Certainly, both POC and DOC fractions are essential components of the C budget of peatlands. Furthermore, dissolved CO2 in all forms of DIC appears to be an important part of peatland C-balance.
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Citation: Fiedler, S., Höll, B. S., Freibauer, A., Stahr, K., Drösler, M., Schloter, M., and Jungkunst, H. F.: Particulate organic carbon (POC) in relation to other pore water carbon fractions in drained and rewetted fens in Southern Germany, Biogeosciences, 5, 1615-1623, 2008. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
