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Carbon and nutrient cycling in kettle hole sediments depending on hydrological dynamics: a review

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Kettle holes as a specific group of isolated, small lentic freshwater systems (LFS) often are (i) hot spots of biogeochemical cycling and (ii) exposed to frequent sediment desiccation and rewetting. Their ecological functioning is greatly determined by immanent carbon and nutrient transformations. The objective of this review is to elucidate effects of a changing hydrological regime (i.e., dry–wet cycles) on carbon and nutrient cycling in kettle hole sediments. Generally, dry–wet cycles have the potential to increase C and N losses as well as P availability. However, their duration and frequency are important controlling factors regarding direction and intensity of biogeochemical and microbiological responses. To evaluate drought impacts on sediment carbon and nutrient cycling in detail requires the context of the LFS hydrological history. For example, frequent drought events induce physiological adaptation of exposed microbial communities and thus flatten metabolic responses, whereas rare events provoke unbalanced, strong microbial responses. Different potential of microbial resilience to drought stress can irretrievably change microbial communities and functional guilds, gearing cascades of functional responses. Hence, dry–wet events can shift the biogeochemical cycling of organic matter and nutrients to a new equilibrium, thus affecting the dynamic balance between carbon burial and mineralization in kettle holes.

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The authors want to thank Gabriela Onandia, Thomas Kalettka, Tobias Hohenbrink, Robert Hommel, and Katja Felsmann for valuable discussions which greatly improved the manuscript. This work was funded by the Leibniz Association in the frame of the SAW Project “LandScales.”

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    Florian Reverey & Gunnar Lischeid

  2. Institute of Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany

    Katrin Premke

  3. Department of Experimental Limnology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, OT Neuglobsow, 16775, Stechlin, Germany

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Reverey, F., Grossart, HP., Premke, K. et al. Carbon and nutrient cycling in kettle hole sediments depending on hydrological dynamics: a review. Hydrobiologia 775, 1–20 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2715-9

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