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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 18, Pages 10379-10386Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02710
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [91547206, 51425902]
- Jiangsu Water Resources Department [2016021]
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An innovative approach was developed to reveal phosphorus (P) transport and redistribution in large and complex river networks in the Lake Taihu basin by establishing the relations between sediment P spatial distribution and P sorption behavior on particles with different grain size, sorted by hydrodynamics. The sediment P fractionation composition changed greatly across the basin, where 69% consisted of acid-soluble fractions (HCl-P) in upstream rivers while 70% was in fractions associated with reducible metal hydroxides (BD-P) and amorphous hydroxides (NaOH25-P) in downstream rivers. Fine particles enriched in BD-P and NaOH25-P fractions tended to sorb liberated P during the resuspension process, and fine particles were more easily delivered downstream toward the lake, forming a sieved transport of P in the river networks. This will lead to a great potential for sediment P release when environmental anoxia develops in the sediments or high pH occurs in the sediment surface during intensive algal blooms in the shallow lake. Reduction of external P from point sources from urbanized areas is an important requirement at the basin scale; however, long-term efforts are needed to restore aquatic macrophytes in the lake, which would decrease P recycling rates at the water-sediment interface.
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