Semidiurnal Dynamics of Salinity, Nutrients and Suspended Particulate Matter in an Estuary in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, during a Spring Tide Cycle |
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| Authors: | Paolo Magni Shigeru Montani Kuninao Tada |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The physical and chemical variability of the water column at subtidal station of an estuary in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan,
was studied over a 24-hour period during a spring tide (tidal range ca. 2 m) in May 1995. Surface water and several depths through the water column were monitored every one and two hours, respectively.
At each occasion, water temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen concentration were measured and water samples were collected
for the determination of nutrients and suspended particulate matter (SPM). Disruptive changes in the physical and chemical
characteristics of the water was produced by the tidal cycle and the mixing of water masses of different origin. These changes
were highly significant both spatially and temporally, yet with varying effects on physical parameters, nutrients and the
different components of SPM. Significant differences in nutrient concentrations were also observed when the data-set was divided
into ebb and flood components, irrespective of the depth. Nitrate and nitrite rose to 1.8 times higher during the flood. Spatial
differences of SPM were less marked than those of nutrients, only particulate organic carbon (POC) being significantly higher
at the surface than in the intermediate and the lower layer. Both POC and pheopigment concentrations increased markedly through
the water column, being highest shortly before the lower low tide. In contrast, suspended solid (SS) content increased sharply
after the lower low tide (>40 mg l−1) and this coincided with a marked decrease of the C/SS content (<20 mg g−1). The lagtime between POC and SS tidal transport was caused by particle resuspension from the exposed intertidal sediments
as the tidal level rose, and particle transport selection in relation to the tidal state.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | Tidal estuaries tidal cycles salt intrusion nutrients pigments suspended matter part-organic carbon Seto Inland Sea |
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