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- Title
Phosphorus Burial in Sediments Along the Salinity Gradient of the Patuxent River, a Subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay (USA).
- Authors
Hartzell, Jeanne L.; Jordan, Thomas E.; Cornwell, Jeffrey C.
- 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.
- Subjects
SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTATION &; deposition; PHYSICAL geography; SALINITY; FRESHWATER algae; SEQUESTRATION (Chemistry)
- Publication
Estuaries & Coasts, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
1559-2723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12237-009-9232-2