Sediment-water exchange of nutrients in the intertidal zone of the Humber estuary, UK

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 3-7, 1999, Pages 261-279

  Mortimer, R J G ^a   Krom, M D ^a   Watson, P G ^b   Frickers, P E ^b   Davey, J T ^b   Clifton, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHATE; SILICATE;

ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; NUTRIENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; HUMBER ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0345624481     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(99)00053-3     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Al-Bakri, D. (1986) Provenance of the sediments in the Humber Estuary and adjacent coasts, eastern England. Marine Geology 72, 171-186.
2. Aller, R. C. (1980) Quantifying solute distributions in the bioturbated zone of marine sediments by defining an average microenvironment. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 44, 1955-1965.
3. Aller, R. C., Mackin, J. E., Ullman, W. J., Wang, C. H., Tsai, S. M., Jin, J. C., Sui, Y. N. and Hong, J. Z. (1985) Early chemical diagenesis, sediment-water solute exchange and storage of reactive organic matter near the mouth of the Changjiang, East China Sea. Continental Shelf Research 4, 227-251.
4. Ashcroft, C. (1996) Sea Vigil water quality monitoring, the Humber Estuary 1994. National Rivers Authority Report.
5. Barnes, J. and Owens, N. J. P. (1998) Denitrification and nitrous oxide concentration in the Humber Estuary, UK, and adjacent coastal zones. Marine Pollution Bulletin 37, 247-260.
6. Berner, R. A. (1971) Principles of Chemical Sedimentology. McGraw-Hill, New York.
7. Berner, R. A. (1980) Early Diagenesis: A Theoretical Approach. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
8. Buresh, R. J. and Patrick, Jr, W. H. (1981) Nitrate reduction to ammonium and organic nitrogen in an estuarine sediment. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 13, 279-283.
9. Callender, E. and Hammond, D. E. (1982) Nutrient exchange across the sediment-water interface in the Potomac River Estuary. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 15, 395-413.
10. 210Pb. Esturine and Coastal Shelf Science 41, 459-474.
11. Davey, J. T., Watson, P. G., Bruce, R. H. and Frickers, P. E. (1990) An instrument for the monitoring and collection of the vented burrow fluids of infauna in sediment microcosms and its application to the polychaetes Hediste diversicolor and Arenicola marina. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 139, 135-149.
12. Davey, J. T. (1994) The architecture of the burrow of Nereis diversicolor and its quantification in relation to sediment-water exchange. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 179, 115-129.
13. Denman, N. E. (1979) Physical characteristics of the Humber. NERC publication, series C, No. 20, 5-8.
14. Enoksson, V. and Samuelson, M.-O. (1987) Nitrification and dissimilatory ammonium production and their effects on nitrogen flux over the sediment-water interface in bioturbated coastal sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 36, 181-189.
15. Fisher, T. R., Carlson, P. R. and Barber, R. T. (1982) Sediment nutrient regeneration in three North Carolina Estuaries. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 14, 101-116.
16. Froelich, P. N., Klinkhammer, G. P., Bender, M. L., Luedtke, N. A., Heath, G. R., Cullen, D., Dauphin, P., Hammond, D., Hartman, B. and Maynard, V. (1979) Early oxidation of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: suboxic diagenesis, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 43, 1075-1090.
17. Froelich, P. N. (1988) Kinetic control of dissolved phosphate: a primer on the phosphate buffer mechanism. Limnology and Oceanography 33, 649-668.
18. 4 in marine and freshwaters. Limnology and Oceanography 37, 1113-1119.
19. Hall, P. O. J., Hulth, S., Hulthe, G., Landen, A. and Tengberg, A. (1996) Benthic nutrient fluxes on a basin-wide scale in the Skagerrak (north-eastern North Sea) Journal of Sea Research 35, 123-137.
20. Hammond, D. E., Giordani, P., Montanari, G., Rinaldi, A., Poletti, R., Rovatti, G., Astorri, M. and Ravaioli, M. (1984) Benthic flux measurements in NW Adriatic coastal waters. Memorie della Societa Geologica Italiana 27, 461-467.
21. Hammond, D. E., Fuller, C., Harmon, D., Hartman, B., Korosec, M., Miller, L. G., Rea, R., Warren, S., Berelson, W. and Hager, S. W. (1985) Benthic fluxes in San Francisco Bay. Hydrobiologica 129, 69-90.
22. Hansen, J. I., Henriksen, K. and Blackburn, T. H. (1981) Seasonal distribution of nitrifying bacteria and rates of nitrification in coastal marine sediments. Microbiology and Ecology 7, 297-304.
23. Hurd, D. C. (1972) Factors affecting solution rate of biogenic opal in seawater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 15, 411-417.
24. Jenkins, M. C. and Kemp, W. M. (1984) The coupling of nitrification and denitrification in two estuarine sediments. Limnology and Oceanography 29, 609-619.
25. Kemp, W. M., Sampou, P., Caffrey, J. and Mayer, M. (1990) Ammonium recycling versus denitrification in Chesapeake Bay sediments. Limnology and Oceanography 35, 1545-1563.
26. Klump, J. V. and Martens, C. S. (1981) Biogeochemical cycling in an organic rich coastal marine basin - II. Nutrient sediment-water exchange processes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 45, 101-121.
27. Krom, M. D. and Berner, R. A. (1980) Adsorption of phosphate in anoxic marine sediments. Limnology and Oceanography 25, 797-806.
28. Krom, M. D. and Berner, R. A. (1981) The diagenesis of phosphorous in a nearshore marine sediment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45, 207-216.
29. Krom, M. D., Davison, P., Zhang, H. and Davison, W. (1994) High resolution pore water sampling with a gel sampler. Limnology and Oceanography 39, 1967-1972.
30. Lewin, J. C. (1995) Silicon metabolism in diatoms III. Respiration and silicon uptake in Navicula pelliculosa. Journal of General Physiology 39, 1-10.
31. Li, Y. -H. and Gregory, S. (1974) Diffusion of ions in seawater and deep sea sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 38, 703-714.
32. Loder, T. C., Lyons, W. B., Murray, S. and McGuiness, H. D. (1978) Silicate in anoxic porewaters and oxidation effects during sampling. Nature 273, 373-374.
33. Lyons, W. B., Loder, T. C. and Murray, S. M. (1982) Nutrient pore water chemistry, Great Bay, New Hampshire: benthic fluxes. Estuaries 5, 230-233.
34. Mackenzie, F. T., Garrels, R. M., Bricker, O. P. and Bickley, F. (1967) Silica in seawater: control by silica minerals. Science 155, 1404-1405.
35. Mackin, J. E. and Aller, R. C. (1984) Dissolved Al in sediments and waters of the East China Sea: implications for authigenic mineral formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 48, 281-297.
36. Mayer, L. M., Jorgensen, J. and Schnitker, D. (1991) Enhancement of diatom frustule dissolution by iron oxides. Marine Geology 99, 263-266.
37. Michalopoulos, P. and Aller, R. C. (1995) Rapid clay mineral formation in Amazon Delta sediments: reverse weathering and oceanic elemental cycles. Science 270, 614-617.
38. Morris, A. W., Bale, A. J. and Howland, R. J. M. (1981) Nutrient distributions in an estuary: evidence of chemical precipitation of dissolved silicate and phosphate. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 12, 205-216.
39. Morris, R. C. and Fletcher, A. B. (1987) Increased solubility of quartz following ferrous-ferric iron reactions. Nature 330, 558-561.
40. Morris, A. W., Allen, J. I., Howland, R. J. M. and Wood, R. G. (1995) The estuary plume zone: source of sink for land-derived nutrient discharges? Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 40, 387-402.
41. Mortimer, R. J. G., Krom, M. D., Watson, P. G. and Frickers, P. E. (1996) Sediment-water exchange of nutrients in the Humber Estuary. In: S.H. Bottrell (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface. July 22-28, 1996, Ilkley, Yorkshire, England, pp. 96-100.
42. Mortimer, R. J. G., Krom, M. D., Hall, P. O. J., Hulth, S. and Stahl, H. (1998). Use of gel probes for the determination of high resolution solute distributions in marine and estuarine pore waters. Marine Chemistry 63, 119-129.
43. Mortimer, R. J. G., Krom, M. D., Clifton, R. J., Davey, J. T., Frickers, P. E. and Watson, P. G. (1999) The effect of sediment mixing and macrofauna on pore-water profiles and nutrient fluxes in the intertidal zone of the Humber. Estuarine and Coastal shelf Science. In press.
44. Nedwell, D. B. and Trimmer, M. (1996) Nitrogen fluxes through the upper estuary of the Great Ouse, England: the role of the bottom sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 142. 273-286.
45. O'Connor, B. A. (1987) Short and long term changes in estuary capacity. Journal of the Geological Society London 144, 187-195.
46. Ogilvie, B., Nedwell, D. B., Harrison, R. M., Robinson, A. and Sage, A. (1997) High nitrate, muddy estuaries as nitrogen sinks: the nitrogen budget of the river Colne estuary (United Kingdom) Marine Ecology Progress Series 150, 217-228.
47. Redfield, A. C. (1958) The biological control of chemical factors in the environment. American Journal of Science 46, 205-222.
48. Richards, F. A., Cline, J. D., Broenkow, W. W. and Atkinson, L. P. (1965) Some consequences of the decomposition of organic matter in Lake Nitinat, an anoxic fjord. Limnology and Oceanography Supplement 10, 185-201.
49. Sanders, R. J., Jickells, T., Malcolm, S., Brown, J., Kirkwood, D., Reeve, A., Taylor, J., Horrobin, T. and Ashcroft, C. (1997) Nutrient fluxes through the Humber estuary. Journal of Sea Research 37 (1/2), 3-23.
50. Santschi, P. H., Hohener, P., Benoit, G. and Bucholtz-Ten Brink, M. (1990) Chemical processes at the sediment-water interface. Marine Chemistry 30, 269-315.
51. Siever, R. and Woodford, N. (1973) Sorption of silica by clay minerals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 37, 1851-1880.
52. Ullman, W. J. and Aller, R. C. (1982) Diffusion coefficients in nearshore marine sediments. Limnology and Oceanography 27, 552-556.
53. Ullman, W. J. and Sandstrom, M. W. (1987) Dissolved nutrient fluxes from the nearshore sediments of Bowling Green Bay, Central Great Barrier Reef Lagoon (Australia) Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 24, 289-303.
54. Veenstra, H. J. (1971) Sediments of the southern North Sea. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, 70/15, 9-23.
55. Watson, P. G., Thompson, P. E. and Goodchild, C. M. (1982) Differentiation between particulate organic and inorganic carbon in samples of marine origin. Proceedings, Erba Science Elemental Analysis Forum Symposium, (Nottingham University), Erba Science Ltd, Swindon, UK.
56. Watson, P. G., Frickers, P. E. and Goodchild, C. M. (1985) A comparison of nutrients in the interstitial water of reducing (Tamar Estuary) and oxic (Carmarthen Bay) coastal waters. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 19, 231-239.
57. Watson, P. G. and Frickers, P. E. (1990) A multilevel, in situ pore-water sampler for use in intertidal sediments and laboratory microcosms. Limnology and Oceanography 35, 1381-1389.
58. Watson, P. G., Frickers, P. E. and Howland, R. J. M. (1993) Benthic fluxes of nutrients and some trace metals in the Tamar Estuary, S.W. England. Netherlands Journal of Aquatic Science 27, 135-146.
59. Watson, P. G., Clifton, R. J., Davey, J. T., Frickers, P. E. and Morris, A. W. (1995) Sediment-water contaminant exchange. PML report to NRA, R and D Note 305.
60. Zwolsman, J. J. G. (1994) Seasonal variability and biogeochemistry of phosphorous in the Scheldt estuary, south-west Netherlands. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 39, 227-248.