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Effects of sediment texture on in-stream nitrogen uptake |
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| Authors: | Dingjiang Chen Hailong Wang Gerty Gielen Yena Shen Songchao Chen Jiawei Chen Jun Lu |
| Institution: | 1. College of Environmental Science and Natural Resources, Zhejiang University, 866# YuHangTang Road, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China 2. China Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China 3. School of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang A & F University, Lin’an, Hangzhou, 311300, China 4. Scion, Private Bag 3020, Rotorua, 3046, New Zealand 5. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Subtropical Soil and Plant Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China |
| Abstract: | A comparative experiment was conducted in two cross sections with sandy and sandy loam sediment textures along an agricultural drainage stream in eastern China to address the effects of sediment texture on in-stream nitrogen uptake efficiency. Using dimerous chambers for in situ incubations, NO3-N and NH4-N uptake metrics (i.e., areal uptake rate and uptake velocity) and associated hydrochemical variables in the enclosed sediment–water column system were measured for 8 days and two nights across April–July in 2011 and March–June in 2012. For the investigated sites, in-stream uptake accounted for 2–45 and 9–36 % of the initial NH4-N and NO3-N within the enclosed water column, respectively. Although similar daytime, diel and day-to-day (daytime) variation patterns of NO3-N or NH4-N uptake metrics were observed for the two sites, the sandy loam sediments had average net NO3-N and NH4-N uptake efficiency ~50 % higher and ~40 % lower than for the sandy sediments, respectively. As NO3-N was the dominant nitrogen form in the studied water columns (typical of agricultural drainage rivers), the sandy loam sediment site had an average of about 47 % higher net uptake efficiency for dissolved inorganic nitrogen (i.e., NO3-N + NH4-N). This study demonstrates that sediment texture has a considerable effect on spatial variation of nitrogen uptake along the river system. Changing sediment texture due to anthropogenic modifications on catchment land use and stream channels has the potential to change stream nitrogen cycling as well as altering nitrogen inputs and forms to downstream aquatic ecosystems. |
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