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Organic Carbon in Aquatic Ecosystems: Beyond Energy — Control

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Perspectives in Running Water Ecology

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For several years now the limnological literature has carried a wide variety of articles dealing with descriptions of the aquatic organic carbon pool. Organic carbon in aquatic ecosystems has been broken down into a series of components ranging from DOM (dissolved organic matter) through to POM (particulate organic matter) with a wide variety of subdescriptors such as FPOM (fine particulate organic matter) and CPOM (coarse particulate organic matter), principally for descriptive convenience. It should be recognized at the outset that in all natural freshwater systems, dissolved organic matter exists as a continuum of sizes from very small molecular weight amino acids and simple sugars to very large molecular weight humic materials. In a similar context, although this material is called ‘organic’, in many instances its inorganic component of sorbed or complexed metal silicates or hydroxides may be considerable. The fact that particulate organic matter also spans a continuum from colloidal substances and bacteria through to fish is perhaps more obvious.

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Lush, D.L. (1981). Organic Carbon in Aquatic Ecosystems: Beyond Energy — Control. In: Lock, M.A., Williams, D.D. (eds) Perspectives in Running Water Ecology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1122-5_7

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