Optical properties of estuarine dissolved organic matter isolated using cross-flow ultrafiltration |
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| Authors: | YI Yueyuan ZHENG Airong GUO Weidong YANG Liyang and CHEN Ding |
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| Institution: | 1.State Key Laboratory of Marine Environment Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China2.College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China3.State Key Laboratory of Marine Environment Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China |
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| Abstract: | Dissolved organic matter (DOM) from freshwater, mid-salinity, and seawater endmember samples in the Jiulong River Estuary, China were fractionated using cross-flow ultrafiltration with a 10-kDa membrane. The colloidal organic matter (COM; 10 kDa-0.22 μm) retentate, low molecular weight (LMW) DOM (<10 kDa) permeate, and bulk samples were analyzed using absorption spectroscopy and three-dimensional fluorescence excitation-emission-matrix spectroscopy. The UV-visible spectra of COM were very similar to those obtained for permeate and bulk samples, decreasing monotonically with increasing wavelength. Most of the chromophoric DOM (CDOM, expressed as the absorption coefficient a 355) occurred in the LMW fraction, while the percentage of CDOM in the colloidal fraction was substantially higher in the freshwater endmember (13.4% of the total) than in the seawater endmember (6.8%). The bulk CDOM showed a conservative mixing behavior in the estuary, while there was removal of the COM fraction and a concurrent addition of the permeate fraction in the mid-salinity sample, implying that part of the colloidal CDOM was transformed into LMW CDOM. Two humic-like components (C1: <250, 325/402 nm; and C2: 265, 360/458 nm) and one protein-like component (C3: 275/334 nm) were identified using parallel factor analysis. The contributions of the C1, C2, and C3 components of the COM fraction to the bulk sample were 2.5%–8.7%, 4.8%–12.6%, and 7.4%–14.7%, respectively, revealing that fluorescent DOM occurred mainly in the LMW fraction in the Jiulong River Estuary. The C1 and C2 components in the retentate and permeate samples showed conservative mixing behavior, but the intensity ratio of C2/C1 was higher in the retentate than in the permeate fractions for all salinity samples, showing that the humic component was more enriched in the COM than the fulvic component. The intensity ratio of C3/(C1+C2) was much higher in the retentate than in the permeate fraction for mid-salinity and seawater samples, revealing that the protein-like component was relatively more enriched in COM than the humic-like component. The contribution of the protein-like component (C3) to the total fluorescence in the retentate increased from 14% in the freshwater endmember to 72% for the seawater endmember samples, clearly indicating the variation of dominance by the humic-like component compared to the protein-like component during the estuarine mixing process of COM. |
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| Keywords: | colloidal organic matter three-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy parallel factor analysis ultrafiltration Jiulong River Estuary |
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