Phosphorus Burial in Sediments Along the Salinity Gradient of the Patuxent River,a Subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay (USA) |
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| Authors: | Jeanne L Hartzell Thomas E Jordan Jeffrey C Cornwell |
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| Institution: | (1) 75 Wilderness Court, Stafford, VA 22556, USA;(2) Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, P.O. Box 28, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA;(3) Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA |
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| Abstract: | We used a sequential extraction technique and 210Pb dating to determine the chemical form and amount of particulate phosphorus (PP) that is retained during burial in 1-m-long
sediment cores collected along a salinity gradient from tidal freshwater to the mesohaline waters of the Patuxent River, a
subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay. PP buried in the study sites with salinity values ≤3 was similar in concentration and form
to PP entering the Patuxent from the watershed, suggesting efficient sequestration by the sediments at these low-salinity
sites. PP extracted with citrate–dithionite–bicarbonate was the dominant form of PP at all salinities and all depths, and
organic-P was the second most abundant fraction. We estimated that 81% of PP entering from the watershed is trapped in the
sediments of the upper Patuxent subestuary and that the subtidal sediments retain three times as much PP as the marshes adjacent
to the study sites. |
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