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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
卷 337, 期 2, 页码 178-189出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.06.025
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burrowing depth; M. arenaria; N. virens; nitrogen; phosphate; sediment mixing
We have examined the effects of individual members of the two dominant functional groups of the Macoma balthica community on fluxes of nutrients and dissolved organic carbon between sediment and overlying water. The biodiffusers M balthica and Mya arenaria and the gallery-diffuser Nereis virens were added to microcosms containing sieved tidal flat sediment, using identical biovolume for each treatment to facilitate comparison. Both functional groups enhanced fluxes over a control without macrofauna. The gallery-diffuser had the greatest effect. The two biodiffusers had opposite effects on the flux of nitrate. M balthica, which lives near the sediment surface, caused nitrate release whereas M arenaria caused nitrate uptake. Both organisms increased the release of ammonia, but M arenaria had the greater effect. We attribute this intra-functional difference not so much to different functionality as to interactions between organisms and the depth distribution of pore water constituents. Because the burrow of M balthica is located within the nitrification zone of the sediment, the depth averaged concentration of nitrate in its burrow is higher than in the overlying water, and burrow flushing leads to net release of nitrate. In contrast, the bur-row of M. arenaria includes both nitrification and denitrification zones, which lower the depth averaged concentration of nitrate below the concentration in the overlying water. The functional group approach needs to take the processes that control sediment chemistry into account in order to predict fluxes sucessfully. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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