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Amy Gartman Mustafa Y��cel Andrew S. Madison David W. Chu Shufen Ma Christopher P. Janzen Erin L. Becker Roxanne A. Beinart Peter R. Girguis George W. Luther III 《Aquatic Geochemistry》2011,17(4-5):583-601
The sulfide (H2S/HS?) that is emitted from hydrothermal vents begins to oxidize abiotically with oxygen upon contact with ambient bottom water, but the reaction kinetics are slow. Here, using in situ voltammetry, we report detection of the intermediate sulfur oxidation products polysulfides [ $ {\text{S}}_{\text{x}}^{2 - } $ ] and thiosulfate [ $ {\text{S}}_{ 2} {\text{O}}_{ 3}^{ 2- } $ ], along with contextual data on sulfide, oxygen, and temperature. At Lau Basin in 2006, thiosulfate was identified in less than one percent of approximately 10,500 scans and no polysulfides were detected. Only five percent of 11,000 voltammetric scans taken at four vent sites at Lau Basin in May 2009 show either thiosulfate or polysulfides. These in situ data indicate that abiotic sulfide oxidation does not readily occur as H2S contacts oxic bottom waters. Calculated abiotic potential sulfide oxidation rates are <10?3 ??M/min and are consistent with slow oxidation and the observed lack of sulfur oxidation intermediates. It is known that the thermodynamics for the first electron transfer step for sulfide and oxygen during sulfide oxidation in these systems are unfavorable, and that the kinetics for two electron transfers are not rapid. Here, we suggest that different metal catalyzed and/or biotic reaction pathways can readily produce sulfur oxidation intermediates. Via shipboard high-pressure incubation experiments, we show that snails with chemosynthetic endosymbionts do release polysulfides and may be responsible for our field observations of polysulfides. 相似文献
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Neil K. Ganju Melanie Hayn Shih-Nan Chen Robert W. Howarth Patrick J. Dickhudt Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta Roxanne Marino 《Estuaries and Coasts》2012,35(5):1285-1298
Increased nutrient loading to estuaries has led to eutrophication, degraded water quality, and ecological transformations. Quantifying nutrient loads in systems with significant groundwater input can be difficult due to the challenge of measuring groundwater fluxes. We quantified tidal and freshwater fluxes over an 8-week period at the entrance of West Falmouth Harbor, Massachusetts, a eutrophic, groundwater-fed estuary. Fluxes were estimated from velocity and salinity measurements and a total exchange flow (TEF) methodology. Intermittent cross-sectional measurements of velocity and salinity were used to convert point measurements to cross-sectionally averaged values over the entire deployment (index relationships). The estimated mean freshwater flux (0.19?m3/s) for the 8-week period was mainly due to groundwater input (0.21?m3/s) with contributions from precipitation to the estuary surface (0.026?m3/s) and removal by evaporation (0.048?m3/s). Spring?Cneap variations in freshwater export that appeared in shorter-term averages were mostly artifacts of the index relationships. Hydrodynamic modeling with steady groundwater input demonstrated that while the TEF methodology resolves the freshwater flux signal, calibration of the index?Csalinity relationships during spring tide conditions only was responsible for most of the spring?Cneap signal. The mean freshwater flux over the entire period estimated from the combination of the index-velocity, index?Csalinity, and TEF calculations were consistent with the model, suggesting that this methodology is a reliable way of estimating freshwater fluxes in the estuary over timescales greater than the spring?Cneap cycle. Combining this type of field campaign with hydrodynamic modeling provides guidance for estimating both magnitude of groundwater input and estuarine storage of freshwater and sets the stage for robust estimation of the nutrient load in groundwater. 相似文献
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Alana Hanson Roxanne Johnson Cathleen Wigand Autumn Oczkowski Earl Davey Erin Markham 《Estuaries and Coasts》2016,39(5):1376-1385
Coastal wetlands, well recognized for their ecosystem services, have faced many threats throughout the USA and elsewhere. While managers require good information on the net impact of these combined stressors on wetlands, little such information exists. We conducted a 4-month mesocosm study to analyze the multiple stressor effects of precipitation changes, sea level rise, and eutrophication on the salt marsh plant Spartina alterniflora. Pots containing plants in an organic soil matrix were positioned in tanks and received Narragansett Bay (RI, USA) water. The study simulated three precipitation levels (ambient daily rain, biweekly storm, and drought), three levels of tidal inundations (high (15 cm below mean high water (MHW)), mean (MHW), and low (15 cm above MHW)), and two nutrient enrichment levels (unenriched and nutrient-enriched bay water). Our results demonstrate that storm and drought stressors led to significantly less above- and belowground biomass than those in ambient rain conditions. Plants that were flooded at high inundation had less belowground biomass, fine roots, and shoots. Nutrients had no detectable effect on aboveground biomass, but the enriched pots had higher stem counts and more fine roots than unenriched pots, in addition to greater CO2 emission rates; however, the unenriched pots had significantly more coarse roots and rhizomes, which help to build peat in organogenic marshes. These results suggest that multiple stressors of altered precipitation, sea level rise, and nutrient enrichment would lead to reduced marsh sustainability. 相似文献
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Ian McKendry Eric Christensen Corinne Schiller Roxanne Vingarzan Anne Marie Macdonald Yimei Li 《大气与海洋》2014,52(3):271-280
At Amphitrite Point, ozone (O3) mixing ratios are observed to drop steadily to 5–15?ppb over a period of 12 hours or less with a frequency approaching one event per week (with highest frequencies occurring in summer and fall). Analysis of 47 such O3 depletion events reveals that low O3 episodes are a predominantly nocturnal phenomenon associated with anticyclonic conditions characterized by light onshore or alongshore winds and an absence of fog and mist. Back-trajectories show air carried to the Amphitrite Point Observatory (APO) during depletion events remains in the marine boundary layer and is not brought to the surface from aloft. There is no strong correlation with other “criteria” pollutants (CO, NOx, SO2, PM2.5) that might be indicative of a mechanism for O3 destruction linked to human, terrestrial, or marine pollutant sources. However, CO2 mixing ratios are observed to increase, coincident with O3 depletion. Together, these results point to a natural marine boundary layer phenomenon in which O3 destruction dominates O3 production and/or replenishment by vertical mixing. While there are several candidate mechanisms, the conditions for O3 depletion (and CO2 buildup) to occur are set by meteorology and, in particular, development of a stable marine boundary layer in which vertical mixing is suppressed. Support for this interpretation is provided by simultaneous increases in CO2 in the stable marine boundary that are indicative of an important role played by marine biogenic processes (respiration). Future research should be directed at elucidating the chemical mechanisms responsible for O3 destruction in the coastal zone, which means that there would be a need for a much broader range of measurements at APO (including halogenated species) as well as offshore measurements of both chemical and marine boundary layer meteorological variables. 相似文献
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The measurement of metabolism using diel free-water oxygen techniques requires the estimation of atmospheric oxygen exchanges. We measured such exchange on nine different occasions in the freshwater, tidally-influenced Hudson River estuary using a floating dome technique. We also analyzed previously published data on the exchange of a variety of gases measured in lakes, estuaries, and open ocean waters using a wide variety of techniques. Data were expressed as a “transfer velocity” and normalized to an exchange of oxygen at 20°C. Considered together, these data indicate a significant predictive relationship when the natural log of transfer velocity is regressed with measured wind speed (r2 = 0.55; p = 0.0001). The influence of wind was particularly pronounced in estuaries and in lakes. Data from open-ocean waters showed much less influence of wind, probably because surface turbulence in these deeper waters can be temporally and spatially decoupled from wind. Our Hudson data agreed well with data collected in other systems. In general, data from estuaries—including the Hudson—indicated slightly higher transfer velocities at any given wind speed than do data from lakes (although this difference was less pronounced for our Hudson data than for other estuaries). The difference may result from some interaction of wind and tidal currents, or it may reflect a bias in the dome method of measurements; all of the estuarine data were collected using the dome approach, while the majority of the lake data were determined using an added tracer. If the dome method actually gives a biased, high estimate of oxygen flux, this is in contradiction to previous criticisms of this method that domes may underestimate fluxes by blocking wind at the water surface. We have used the regression of the natural log of transfer velocity versus wind speed developed here to estimate respiration in the Hudson estuary from diel changes in dissolved oxygen. To allow for possible biases in technique and for measurement error, we estimated 95% confidence limits around the regression. Estimates of respiration in the Hudson determined using the upper and lower 95% confidence limits are 30% higher and 12% lower than that determined when using the best-fit regression. An independently-constrained carbon budget for the tidally-influenced, freshwater Hudson River estuary indicates that respiration rates cannot be much higher than our mean estimate as calculated using the linear regression of the gas transfer and wind data to correct for air-water oxygen exchange. Gas transfer in natural systems is difficult to measure and is controlled by many interrelated physical factors. In the absence of extensive, system-specific field studies, the regression presented here should be useful in estimating atmospheric oxygen exchange in other estuarine or riverine ecosystems which are relatively deep and wide. 相似文献
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Nutrient limitation of the rhizophytic macroalgaPenicillus capitatus found associated with subtropical seagrass meadows in Bermuda was determined from enrichment assays and subsequent tissue analyses. The photosynthetic response ofP. capitatus to additions of inorganic nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P), measured as oxygen evolution in closed incubation chambers, increased significantly in both the 16 h and 6 d experiments only with nitrogen enrichment. The average photosynthetic response for all treatments was virtually identical in the two experiments, indicating that there was not a significant time lag in nutrient uptake and that the short term (16 h) assay accurately reflected the longer term (6 d) photosynthetic response to nutrient enrichment. Average tissue nitrogen levels for the nitrogen-treated algae were 29% higher than the phosphorus-treated algae and 18% greater than the controls, corroborating the results from the photosynthesis assay.P. capitatus may acquire nutrients directly from sediment sources via rhizoid holdfasts. Ratios of total dissolved nitrogen (TN) to total dissolved phosphorus (TP) in pore water at 10 and 20 cm depths (6.1 and 4.5, respectively) indicate a nitrogen-limited nutrient pool. These low pore water TN:TP ratios may be a function of a limited sorptive capacity of the calcium carbonate sediments for phosphate, anthropogenic nutrient inputs, or high rates of denitrification, all of which would induce N rather than P limitation in these carbonate-rich sediments. 相似文献
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Melanie Hayn Robert Howarth Roxanne Marino Neil Ganju Peter Berg Kenneth H. Foreman Anne E. Giblin Karen McGlathery 《Estuaries and Coasts》2014,37(1):63-73
West Falmouth Harbor, a shallow lagoon on Cape Cod, has experienced a threefold increase in nitrogen load since the mid- to late 1990s due to input from a groundwater plume contaminated by a municipal wastewater treatment plant. We measured the exchange of nitrogen and phosphorus between the harbor and the coastal waters of Buzzards Bay over several years when the harbor was experiencing this elevated nitrogen load. During summer months, the harbor not only retained the entire watershed nitrogen load but also had a net import of nitrogen from Buzzards Bay. During the spring and fall, the harbor had a net export of nitrogen to Buzzards Bay. We did not measure the export in winter, but assuming the winter net export was less than 112 % of the load, the harbor exported less than half of the watershed nitrogen load on an annual basis. For phosphorus, the harbor had a net import from coastal waters in the spring and summer months and a net export in the fall. Despite the large increase in nitrogen load to the harbor, the summertime import of phosphorus from Buzzards Bay was sufficient to maintain nitrogen limitation of primary productivity during the summer. Our findings illustrate that shallow systems dominated by benthic producers have the potential to retain large terrestrial nitrogen loads when there is sufficient supply of phosphorus from exchange with coastal waters. 相似文献
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