Fig. 2
The boxplot of dissolved carbon (DC) in lakes (reservoirs) with different eutrophic status in different lake regions in China. Lakes in (a) NLR, (b) ELR, (c) MXR, (d) YGR, and (e) TQR; Reservoirs in (f) NLR, (g) ELR, (h) MXR, (i) YGR, and (j) TQR. Please refer to the caption of Fig. 1 for the abbreviations used for the limnetic regions. The black line and the open square represent the median and mean respectively. The horizontal edges of the boxes denote the 25th and 75th percentiles; the whiskers denote the lower and upper limits of the data.
