Cook, Sarah, Peacock, Mike 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3086-2854, Evans, Chris D, Page, Susan E, Whelan, Mick J, Gauci, Vincent and Kho, Lip Khoon
(2017)
Quantifying tropical peatland dissolved organic carbon (DOC) using UV-visible spectroscopy.
WATER RESEARCH, 115.
pp. 229-235.
Abstract
UV-visible spectroscopy has been shown to be a useful technique for determining dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations. However, at present we are unaware of any studies in the literature that have investigated the suitability of this approach for tropical DOC water samples from any tropical peatlands, although some work has been performed in other tropical environments. We used water samples from two oil palm estates in Sarawak, Malaysia to: i) investigate the suitability of both single and two-wavelength proxies for tropical DOC determination; ii) develop a calibration dataset and set of parameters to calculate DOC concentrations indirectly; iii) provide tropical researchers with guidance on the best spectrophotometric approaches to use in future analyses of DOC. Both single and two-wavelength model approaches performed well with no one model significantly outperforming the other. The predictive ability of the models suggests that UV-visible spectroscopy is both a viable and low cost method for rapidly analyzing DOC in water samples immediately post-collection, which can be important when working at remote field sites with access to only basic laboratory facilities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DOC, Tropical peat, Water samples, Spectrophotometry, Sarawak |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2022 15:11 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2023 18:45 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.watres.2017.02.059 |
| Open Access URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3160101 |
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