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Periphyton Phosphorus Uptake in Response to Dynamic Concentrations in Streams: Assimilation and Changes to Intracellular Speciation

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 57, 期 11, 页码 4643-4655

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c06285

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phosphorus; periphyton; polyphosphate; pulse; P NMR

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Effective modeling and management of phosphorus (P) losses from landscapes to waterbodies requires understanding of P retention and remobilization along the terrestrial-aquatic continuum. Stream periphyton has the capability to transiently store bioavailable P, but its response to dynamic P concentrations is largely unknown.
Effective modeling and management of phosphorus (P) losses from landscapes to receiving waterbodies requires an adequate understanding of P retention and remobilization along the terrestrial-aquatic continuum. Within aquatic ecosystems, the stream periphyton can transiently store bioavailable P through uptake and incorporation into biomass during subscouring and baseflow conditions. However, the capacity of stream periphyton to respond to dynamic P concentrations, which are ubiquitous in streams, is largely unknown. Our study used artificial streams to impose short periods (48 h) of high SRP concentration on stream periphyton acclimated to P scarcity. We examined periphyton P content and speciation through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate the intracellular storage and transformation of P taken up across a gradient of transiently elevated SRP availabilities. Our study demonstrates that the stream periphyton not only takes up significant quantities of P following a 48-h high P pulse but also sustains supplemental growth over extended periods of time (10 days), following the reestablishment of P scarcity by efficiently assimilating P stored as polyphosphates into functional biomass (i.e., phospho-monoesters and phospho-diesters). Although P uptake and intracellular storage approached an upper limit across the experimentally imposed SRP pulse gradient, our findings demonstrate the previously underappreciated extent to which the periphyton can modulate the timing and magnitude of P delivery from streams. Further elucidating these intricacies in the transient storage potential of periphyton highlights opportunities to enhance the predictive capacity of watershed nutrient models and potentially improve watershed P management.

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