Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIRS), a New Method to Infer Past Changes in Tree-line Position and TOC using Lake Sediment |
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Authors: | Peter Rosén Per Persson |
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Institution: | 1. Climate Impacts Research Centre, Ume? University, Box 62, SE-981 07, Abisko, Sweden 2. Department of Chemistry, Aquatic Chemistry, Ume? University, SE-901 87, Ume?, Sweden
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Abstract: | This study tests the hypothesis that Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) of lake sediments can be used to infer
past changes in tree-line position and total organic carbon (TOC) content of lake water. A training set of 100 lakes from
northern Sweden spanning a broad altitudinal and TOC gradient from 0.7 to 14.9 mg/l was used to assess whether vegetation
zones and TOC can be modelled from FTIR spectra of surface sediments (0–1 cm) using principal component analysis (PCA) and
partial least squares (PLS) regression. Preliminary results show that FTIRS of lake sediments can be used to reconstruct past
changes in tree line and the TOC content of lake water, which is hardly surprising since FTIRS registers the properties of
organic and minerogenic material derived from the water mass and the drainage area. The FTIRS model for TOC gives a root mean
squared error (RMSECV) of calibration of 1.4 mg/l (10% of the gradient) assessed by internal cross-validation (CV) yielding
an Rcv2 of 0.64. This should be compared with a near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and diatom transfer function for TOC from the same
set of lakes, which have a Rcv2 of 0.61 and 0.31, and RMSECV of 1.6 and 2.3 mg/l, respectively. The FTIRS-TOC model was applied to a Holocene sediment core
from a tree-line lake and the results show similar trends as inferences from NIRS and pollen from the same core. Overall,
the results indicate that changes in FTIR spectra from lake sediments reflect differences in catchment vegetation and TOC,
and that FTIRS-models based on surface-sediment samples can be applied to sediment cores for retrospective analysis. |
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Keywords: | Carbon cycling Climate change Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) Lake sediment Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) Palaeoclimatology |
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