期刊
WATER RESEARCH
卷 221, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118727
关键词
Dissolvedorganicmatter; Hypersalinewaters; Endorheic; Spectroscopy; FT-ICR-MS
资金
- European Regional Development Funds [RTI2018-097950-B-C21/C22, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
- European Regional Development Funds (EFRE-Europe Funds Saxony) [RTI2018-097950-B-C21/C22, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
- Helmholtz Association
This study investigates the availability and quality of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the water column of hypersaline endorheic aquatic systems (H-SEAS). The research finds that during a hydrological wetting-drying-rewetting cycle, the DOM pool undergoes significant alterations in molecular composition, with the release of organic solutes originating from decaying microplankton under large osmotic stress at extremely high salinities.
Hypersaline endorheic aquatic systems (H-SEAS) are lakes/shallow playas in arid and semiarid regions that undergo extreme oscillations in salinity and severe drought episodes. Although their geochemical uniqueness and microbiome have been deeply studied, very little is known about the availability and quality of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the water column.. A H-SEAS from the Monegros Desert (Zaragoza, NE Spain) was studied during a hydrological wetting-drying-rewetting cycle. DOM analysis included: (i) a dissolved organic carbon (DOC) mass balance; (ii) spectroscopy (absorbance and fluorescence) and (iii) a molecular characterization with Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS). The studied system stored a large amount of DOC and under the highest salinity conditions, salt-saturated waters (i.e., brines with salinity > 30%) accumulated a disproportionate quantity of DOC, indicating a significant in-situ net DOM production. Simulta-neously, during the hydrological transition from wet to dry, the DOM pool showed strong alterations of it mo-lecular composition. Spectroscopic methods indicated that aromatic and degraded DOM was rapidly replaced by fresher, relatively small, microbial-derived moieties with a large C/N ratio. FT-ICR-MS highlighted the accu-mulation of small, saturated and oxidized molecules (molecular O/C > 0.5), with a remarkable increase in the relative contribution of highly oxygenated (molecular O/C>0.9) compounds and a decrease of aliphatic and carboxyl-rich alicyclic moleculesThese results indicated that H-SEAS are extremely active in accumulating and processing DOM, with the notable release of organic solutes probably originated from decaying microplankton under large osmotic stress at extremely high salinities.
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