مورد إلكتروني
SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF NITROGEN AND CARBON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY IN A WETLAND-STREAM SEQUENCE
| العنوان: | SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF NITROGEN AND CARBON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY IN A WETLAND-STREAM SEQUENCE |
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| المؤلفون: | Hurley, Patrick E |
| المصدر: | Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers |
| بيانات النشر: | Missoula, MT University of Montana 2019-01-01T08:00:00Z |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | Studies of aquatic ecosystems often segregate streams from the influential ponds, lakes, and wetland zones that act as important transitions between terrestrial and fluvial systems. Across the aquatic landscape, these zones interact to form linked ecosystems that function as discrete nutrient processing domains, shifting biogeochemical signals due to spatial and temporal variability in hydrologic and biologic controls. Using a mass-balance approach, we profiled nutrient dynamics along a 23-km wetland-stream sequence over three seasons. Hydrologic, morphologic, and biologic conditions, as well as landscape attributes, were quantified to determine potential controls on biogeochemical cycling in a tributary of the Upper Clark Fork River (UCFR), MT that is known for contributing disproportionate nutrient loads. Results identified a geomorphic and hydrologic sequence of wetland-stream interactions that generated discrete zones of nutrient production, transformation, and uptake. Zones of production resulted in five-to seven-fold increases in nitrate loads. Across all four stream reaches, nutrient dynamics were driven primarily by net groundwater exchange, which explained up to 30% (P = 0.0064) of the change in nitrate load. Nitrogen transformation of ammonium-rich groundwater inputs resulted in mean nitrification rates of 248.49 mg N m-2 d-1; on par with engineered surface-flow constructed treatment wetlands. Abnormally high C loss rates(up to -54.9 g C m-2 d-1) calculated from changes in the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) load between ground-and surface water compartments suggest DOC removal pathways other than heterotrophic respiration –i.e., adsorption to the extensive carbonate precipitates which coat benthic and hyporheic substrates. During the study period,water flowing through this sequence of aquatic systems exhibited an average increase in nitrate load of 461% and a doubling of ammonium, soluble reactive phosphate, and DOC loads with a mere 32% increase in discha |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | nutrient process domains, biogeochemistry, linked ecosystems, wetland-streams, mass-balance, Applied Statistics, Biogeochemistry, Biology, Environmental Monitoring, Hydrology, Longitudinal Data Analysis and Time Series, Natural Resources Management and Policy, Systems Biology, Water Resource Management, application/pdf |
| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content |
| ملاحظة: | application/pdf |
| أرقام أخرى: | MTG oai:scholarworks.umt.edu:etd-12424 https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11357Test https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12424&context=etdTest 1333196428 |
| المصدر المساهم: | UNIV OF MONTANA, MANSFIELD LIBR From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsoai.on1333196428 |
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