Data for: Human activity coupled with climate change strengthens the role of lakes as an active pipe of dissolved organic matter

This dataset contains data from an investigation to resolve the relative importance of multiple environmental drivers on the quantity and quality of chromophoric DOM in lakes at the continental scales. The study is described in the paper: “Du Y., Chen F., Zhang Y., He H., Wen S., Huang X., Song C., Li. K., Wang J., Kellings D., and Lu Y. 2023. Human activity coupled with climate change strengthens the role of lakes as an active pipe of dissolved organic matter, Earth’s Future, in press”. 
The primary objectives of the study were to (i) quantity the magnitude of environmental drivers modulating lacustrine DOM quantity and quality at a continental scale, including climate, land cover, societal development, and water retention time, and (ii) unravel individual and interactive effects of the environmental drivers.
Firstly, we constructed a structural equation model framework that incorporated both direct and indirect pathways.
Secondly, we collected a continental-scale dataset of lake DOM q..., ,