bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/115808; this version posted April 11, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 ASSESSING THE CHEMISTRY AND BIOAVAILABILITY OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER FROM GLACIERS AND ROCK 2 GLACIERS 3 4 1,2 1,3 3 1,4 5 Fegel, Timothy , Boot, Claudia M. , Broeckling, Corey D. , Hall, Ed K. 6 1. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University 2. U.S. Forest Service, 7 Rocky Mountain Research Station, 3. Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University 4. 8 Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility, Colorado State University 4. Department of Ecosystem 9 Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University 10 11 Tim Fegel
[email protected] 12 13 14 Key Points: 15 Bioavailability of organic matter released from glaciers is greater than that of rock glaciers in the 16 Rocky Mountains. 17 The use of GC-MS for ecosystem metabolomics represents a novel approach for examining 18 complex organic matter pools. 19 Both glaciers and rock glaciers supply highly bioavailable sources of organic matter to alpine 20 headwaters in Colorado. 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/115808; this version posted April 11, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.