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1 Background
Solar radiation is a universal and regular phenomenon in biosphere that is vital
for all life in the Earth’s crust. It maintains all the physical, chemical, photoinduced and biological processes of organic matter and dissolved organic matter
Photoinduced and Microbial Degradation
of Dissolved Organic Matter in Natural Waters
K. M. G. Mostofa et al. (eds.), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter,
Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32223-5_4,
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Daisuke Minakata, Fengchang Wu,
Davide Vione, M. Abdul Mottaleb, Takahito Yoshioka and Hiroshi Sakugawa
Note that ‘Photoinduced and photolytically’ has been used instead of “photochemical and
photochemically” in this book.
K. M. G. Mostofa (*) · C. Q. Liu
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
e-mail: mostofa@vip.gyig.ac.cn
D. Minakata
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 828 West Peachtree Street, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
F. C. Wu
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Lake Pollution Control,
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Chaoyang 100012, China
D. Vione
Dipartimento Chim Analit, University Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Centro Interdipartimentale NatRisk, I-10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
M. A. Mottaleb
Department of Chemistry/Physics, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE),
Northwest Missouri State University, 800 University Drive, Maryville, MO 64468, USA
T. Yoshioka
Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
H. Sakugawa
Department of Environmental Dynamics and Management, Graduate School of Biosphere
Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
1 Background
Solar radiation is a universal and regular phenomenon in biosphere that is vital
for all life in the Earth’s crust. It maintains all the physical, chemical, photoinduced and biological processes of organic matter and dissolved organic matter
Photoinduced and Microbial Degradation
of Dissolved Organic Matter in Natural Waters
K. M. G. Mostofa et al. (eds.), Photobiogeochemistry of Organic Matter,
Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32223-5_4,
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Daisuke Minakata, Fengchang Wu,
Davide Vione, M. Abdul Mottaleb, Takahito Yoshioka and Hiroshi Sakugawa
Note that ‘Photoinduced and photolytically’ has been used instead of “photochemical and
photochemically” in this book.
K. M. G. Mostofa (*) · C. Q. Liu
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
e-mail: mostofa@vip.gyig.ac.cn
D. Minakata
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 828 West Peachtree Street, Suite 320, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
F. C. Wu
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Lake Pollution Control,
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Chaoyang 100012, China
D. Vione
Dipartimento Chim Analit, University Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Centro Interdipartimentale NatRisk, I-10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
M. A. Mottaleb
Department of Chemistry/Physics, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE),
Northwest Missouri State University, 800 University Drive, Maryville, MO 64468, USA
T. Yoshioka
Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
H. Sakugawa
Department of Environmental Dynamics and Management, Graduate School of Biosphere
Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan