Inferring sedimentary chlorophyll concentrations with reflectance spectroscopy: a novel approach to reconstructing historical changes in the trophic status of mountain lakes
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Abstract
Reflectance spectroscopy has made it possible to rapidly and nondestructively assess the chlorophyll content of plants and natural waters. However, to date this approach has not been applied to chlorophyll and chlorophyll derivatives preserved in lake sediments. Here, we explore the relationships between visible-near-infrared spectral properties of lake sediments and measured pigment concentrations for lakes that have been exposed recently to anthropogenic nitrogen deposition. Down-core decreases in pigment concentrations and changes in reflectance properties effectively chronicle increases in whole-lake primary production since 1950. Specifically, reflectance spectra of sediments from four alpine lakes in Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado Front Range, USA) preserve salient troughs near 675 nm that covary in magnitude with concentrations of chlorophyll a and associated pheopigments. The area of the trough in reflectance between 600 and 760 nm best explains the sum of total chlorophyll a and its derivatives (r 2 = 0.82, n = 23, P < 0.01). This result suggests that chlorophyll a preserved in lake sediments can be remotely sensed using a simple index derived from reflectance spectroscopy, thus providing a new paleolimnological strategy for rapid exploratory assessments of changing lake trophic status.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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