Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 219, Issue -, Pages 490-500Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.05.060
Keywords
Sediment-water interface; Nutrient pollution; Climate change; Cascade reservoir; Jiulong River
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41076042, 41376082]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2012121053]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0496]
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Increases in water temperature, as a result of climate change, may influence biogeochemical cycles, sediment-water fluxes and consequently environmental sustainability. Effects of rising temperature on dynamics of nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP), dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and gaseous nitrogen (N-2 and N2O) were examined in a subtropical river (the Jiulong River, southeast China) by microcosm experiments. Slurry sediments and overlying water were collected from three continuous cascade reservoirs, and laboratory incubations were performed at four temperature gradients (5 degrees C, 15 degrees C, 25 degrees C and 35 degrees C). Results indicated: (1) warming considerably increased sediment ammonium, DIN and DOC fluxes to overlying water; (2) warming increased retention of nitrate, and to a lesser extent, nitrite, corresponding to increases in N-2 and N2O emission; (3) DRP was retained but released from Fe/Al-P enriched sediments at high temperature (35 degrees C) due to enhanced coupled transformation of carbon and nitrogen with oxygen deficiency. Using relationships between sediment fluxes and temperature, a projected 2.3 degrees C-warming in future would increase ammonium flux from sediment by 7.0%-16.8%, while increasing nitrate flux into sediment by 8.9%-28.6%. Moreover, substrates (e.g., grain size, carbon availability) influenced nutrient delivery and cycling across cascade reservoirs. This study highlights that warming would increase bioreactive nutrient (i.e., ammonium and phosphate) mobilization with limited gaseous N removal from sediments, consequently deteriorating water quality and increasing eutrophication with future climate change. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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