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Nutrient (P,?N) dynamics in the southwestern Kattegat, Scandinavia: sedimentation and resuspension effects |
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| Authors: | C Christiansen F Gertz M J C Laima L C Lund-Hansen T Vang C Jürgensen |
| Institution: | Department of Earth Sciences, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, Building 520, 8000 ?rhus C, Denmark, DK County of Vejle, Damhaven 12, 7100 Vejle, Denmark, DK County of Funen, ?rb?kvej 100, 5220 Ordense S?, Denmark, DK |
| Abstract: | The yearly nutrient supply from land and atmosphere to the study area in SW Kattegat is 10 900 tons of N and 365 tons of P. This is only few percent of the supply from adjacent marine areas, as the yearly transport through the study area is 218 000 tons of N and 18 250 tons of P. Yearly net deposition makes up 1340 tons of N (on average 2.5 g m–2 yr–1) and 477 ton of P (on average 0.9 g m–2 yr–1). Shallow-water parts of the study area have no net deposition because of frequent (>35% of the year) resuspension. Resuspension frequency in deep water is <1% of the year. Resuspension rates, as averages for the study area, are 10–17 times higher than net deposition rates. Because of resuspension, shallow-water sediments are coarse lag deposits with small amounts of organic matter (1.1%) and nutrients (0.04% N and 0.02% P). Deep-water sediments, in contrast, are fine grained with high levels of organic matter (11.7%) and nutrients (0.43% N and 0.15% P). Laboratory studies showed that resuspension changes the diffusive sediment water fluxes of nutrients, oxygen consumption, and penetration into the sediment. Fluxes of dissolved reactive phosphate from sediment to water after resuspension were negative in organic-rich sediments (13.2% organic matter) with low porosity (56) and close to zero in coarse sediments with a low organic matter content (2.3%) and high porosity (73). Fluxes of inorganic N after resuspension were reduced to 70% and 0–20% in relation to the rates before resuspension, respectively. Received: 10 July 1995 · Accepted: 19 January 1996 |
| Keywords: | Nutrient dynamics Sedimentation Resuspension Scandinavia |
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