期刊
ESTUARIES AND COASTS
卷 33, 期 1, 页码 92-106出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-009-9232-2
关键词
Phosphorus; Sediments; Patuxent river; Chesapeake bay; Citrate dithionite bicarbonate (CDB)
资金
- National Science Foundation [DEB-0235884]
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
We used a sequential extraction technique and Pb-210 dating to determine the chemical form and amount of particulate phosphorus (PP) that is retained during burial in 1-m-long sediment cores collected along a salinity gradient from tidal freshwater to the mesohaline waters of the Patuxent River, a subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay. PP buried in the study sites with salinity values <= 3 was similar in concentration and form to PP entering the Patuxent from the watershed, suggesting efficient sequestration by the sediments at these low-salinity sites. PP extracted with citrate-dithionite-bicarbonate was the dominant form of PP at all salinities and all depths, and organic-P was the second most abundant fraction. We estimated that 81% of PP entering from the watershed is trapped in the sediments of the upper Patuxent subestuary and that the subtidal sediments retain three times as much PP as the marshes adjacent to the study sites.
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