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ESTUARIES AND COASTS
卷 43, 期 4, 页码 814-830出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00708-1
关键词
Saltwater intrusion; Extracellular enzyme activities; Peat collapse; Root litter breakdown; Everglades; Coastal wetlands
资金
- Florida Sea Grant [R/C-S-56]
- National Science Foundation [DEB-1237517]
- FCE LTER
- Florida International University's Dissertation Year Fellowship
Coastal freshwater and brackish wetlands are exposed to pulses of saltwater during times of reduced freshwater flows (i.e., dry seasons, droughts), periodic storm surges, and increased tidal extent associated with rising seas. The effects of saltwater pulses on belowground processing rates of detrital organic matter as mediated by microbial activities are uncertain. Our objectives were to quantify whether and how pulses of saltwater (i) change soil porewater physicochemistry, (ii) change soil microbial extracellular enzyme activities, and (iii) change root litter breakdown over time in freshwater and brackish marshes. From 2014 to 2016, we simulated saltwater intrusion as monthly in situ pulsed additions of artificial seawater in experimental dosing chambers (1.4 m diameter) within freshwater and brackish marshes of Everglades National Park. At monthly intervals, we collected soil porewater chemistry, and measured microbial extracellular enzymes, elemental stoichiometric ratios, and breakdown rates (k) of incubated (0-30 cm depth) root litter and compared these responses over time. Saltwater pulses increased sulfate and nitrogen concentrations in porewater at the freshwater site. However, saltwater pulses generally decreased porewater constituents (e.g., dissolved organic carbon, dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus species) at the brackish site. One saltwater pulse increased root litter k by 1.25-fold in the brackish marsh. However, long-term (740 days) k in brackish wetlands, and both short- and long-term k in freshwater wetlands, were not affected by 24 monthly pulses of saltwater. Enzyme activities fluctuated with time and did not respond to multiple saltwater pulses. Our results suggest that detrital organic matter stocks and associated soil microbial activities are relatively resistant to single and multiple (n = 24) pulses of saltwater.
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