期刊
HYDROBIOLOGIA
卷 658, 期 1, 页码 183-195出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0462-x
关键词
Nitrification; Denitrification; Desiccation
资金
- NSF EPSCoR [EPS-0553722]
Changing environmental conditions and increased water consumption have transformed many historically perennial stream systems into intermittent systems. Multiple drying and wetting events throughout the year might impact many stream processes including nitrification and denitrification, key components of the nitrogen (N) cycle. During summer 2007, an experimental stream was used to dry and then rewet stream sediments to determine the effects of desiccation and rewetting of stream sediment on nitrification and denitrification potentials. Mean (+/- SE) nitrification and denitrification rates in sediment not dried (controls) were 0.431 +/- A 0.017 mu g NO3 (-)-N/cm(2)/h and 0.016 +/- A 0.002 mu g N2O-N/cm(2)/h, respectively. As sediment samples dried, nitrification rates decreased. Rates in sediments dried less than 7 d recovered to levels equal or greater than those in the controls within 1 d of being rewetted. Denitrification rates were not affected by 1 d of drying, but samples dried greater than 1 d experienced reduced rates of denitrification. Denitrification in sediments dried 7 d or less recovered by day seven of being rewetted. Nitrification and denitrification processes failed to fully recover in sediments dried more than 7 d. These results demonstrate that alterations in stream's hydrology can significantly affect N-cycle processes.
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