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- Title
Advanced Molecular Techniques Provide New Rigorous Tools for Characterizing Organic Matter Quality in Complex Systems.
- Authors
Wilson, Rachel M.; Tfaily, Malak M.
- Abstract
Abstract: Carbon flux rates are widely understood to be substrate controlled; however, characterizing substrate quality continues to be a challenge. We suggest that, while optical measurements have their place, they are not the only, or the best, tool for characterizing organic matter quality. Nominal oxidation state of the carbon provides a thermodynamically relevant measure, which could be used as a metric of organic matter quality. Calculating nominal oxidation state of the carbon requires a suite of advanced complementary analysis but is then trivial to calculate from the resulting data sets.
- Publication
Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences, 2018, Vol 123, Issue 6, p1790
- ISSN
2169-8953
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2018JG004525