N2 fluxes in sediments of the Elbe Estuary and adjacent coastal zones

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 493, Issue , 2013, Pages 9-21

  Deek, Astrid ^a,b   Dähnke, Kirstin ^a   Van Beusekom, Justus ^a   Meyer, Sven ^c   Voss, Maren ^c   Emeis, Kay ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Elbe Estuary; Eutrophication; Nitrogen cycle

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOTTOM WATER; COASTAL ZONE; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EUTROPHICATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN CYCLE; ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ELBE ESTUARY; GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY]; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 84888869676     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10514     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Alexander RB, Smith RA, Schwarz GE (2000) Effect of stream channel size on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico. Nature 403: 758-761
2. An S, Gardner WS, Kana TM (2001) Simultaneous measurement of denitrification and nitrogen fixation using isotope airing with membrane inlet mass spectrometry. Appl Environ Microbiol 67: 1171-1178
3. ARGE (2004) Sauerstoffhaushalt der Tideelbe. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Reinhaltung der Elbe. Available at www.fgg-elbe.de/dokumente/fachberichte. html
4. Bertics VJ, Sohm JA, Treude T, Chow CET, Capone DG, Fuhrman JA, Ziebis W (2010) Burrowing deeper into benthic nitrogen cycling: the impact of bioturbation on nitrogen fixation coupled to sulfate reduction. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 409: 1-15
5. Brockmann UH, Kattner G (1997) Winter-to-summer changes of nutrients, dissolved and particulate organic material in the North Sea. Dtsch Hydrogr Z 49: 229-242
6. Conley DJ, Kaas H, Mohlenberg F, Rasmussen B, Windolf J (2000) Characteristics of Danish estuaries. Estuaries 23: 820-837
7. Dähnke K, Bahlmann E, Emeis K (2008) A nitrate sink in estuaries? An assessment by means of stable nitrate isotopes in the Elbe estuary. Limnol Oceanogr 53: 1504-1511
8. Day J, Kemp CAS, Kemp WM, Yanez-Arancibia A (eds) (1989) Estuarine ecology. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY
9. Deek A, Emeis K, van Beusekom J (2011) Nitrogen removal in coastal sediments of the German Wadden Sea. Biogeochemistry 108: 467-483
10. Deutsch B, Forster S, Wilhelm M, Dippner J, Voss M (2010) Denitrification in sediments as a major nitrogen sink in the Baltic Sea: an extrapolation using sediment characteristics. Biogeosciences 7: 3259-3271
11. Erisman JW, Sutton MA (2008) Reduced nitrogen in ecology and the environment: special issue of the ESF-FWF conference in partnership with LFUI, October 2006. Environ Pollut 154: 357-358
12. Eyre BD, Rysgaard S, Dalsgard T, Christensen PB (2002) Comparison of isotope pairing and N2: Ar methods for measuring sediment denitrification - assumptions, modifications, and implications. Estuaries 25: 1077-1087
13. Fulweiler RW, Nixon SW, Buckley BA, Granger SL (2007) Reversal of the net dinitrogen gas flux in coastal marine sediments. Nature 448: 180-182
14. Gao H, Matyka M, Liu B, Khalili A and others (2012) Intensive and extensive nitrogen loss from intertidal permeable sediments of the Wadden Sea. Limnol Oceanogr 57: 185-198
15. Gardner WS, McCarthy MJ, An S, Sobolev D, Sell KS, Brock D (2006) Nitrogen fixation and dissimilatory nitrate re - duction to ammonium (DNRA) support nitrogen dyna - mics in Texas estuaries. Limnol Oceanogr 51: 558-568
16. Gardner WS, Seitzinger SP, Malczyk JM (1991) The effects of sea salts on the forms of nitrogen released from estuarine and freshwater sediments: Does ion pairing affect ammonium flux? Estuaries 14: 157-166
17. Grasshoff K, Ehrhardt M, Kremling K (eds) (1999) Methods of seawater analysis, 3rd edn. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim
18. Gröngröft A, Grabowski K, Schwank S (2006) Umwelt - verträglichkeitsuntersuchung 'Anpassung der Fahrrinne der Unter- und Außenelbe an die Containerschiffahrt'. Teilgutachten zum Schutzgut Wasser, Teilbereich Sedimente. Unpublished report, Institute of Soil Science, University of Hamburg
19. Haggard BE, Storm DE, Tejral RD, Popova YA, Keyworth VG, Stanley EH (2001) Stream nutrient retention in three northeastern Oklahoma agricultural catchments. Trans ASAE 44: 597-605
20. Heise S, Calmano W, Ahlf W, Leal W, Krahn D (2005) Environmental challenges for the Hamburg stretch of the River Elbe and its catchment with regard to the Wa - ter Framework Directive. www.watersketch.net/WP4- Dissemination-of-results/Handbook/vdo-ws-05-study-germany-elbe.pdf (accessed 17 Aug 2010)
21. Kana TM, Darkangelo C, Hunt MD, Oldham JB (1994) Membrane inlet mass spectrometer for rapid highprecision determination of N2, O2, and Ar in environ - mental water samples. Anal Chem 66: 4166-4170
22. Kerner M, Jacobi A (2005) Die Elbevertiefung von 1999. Tatsächliche und prognostizierte Auswirkungen. WWF Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main
23. Koch MS, Maltby E, Oliver GA, Bakker SA (1992) Factors controlling denitrification rates of tidal mudflats and fringing salt marshes in south-west England. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 34: 471-485
24. Koop-Jakobsen K, Giblin AE (2010) The effect of increased nitrate loading on nitrate reduction via denitrification and DNRA in salt marsh sediments. Limnol Oceanogr 55: 789-802
25. Laursen AE, Seitzinger SP (2002) The role of denitrification in nitrogen removal and carbon mineralization in Mid-Atlantic Bight sediments. Cont Shelf Res 22: 1397-1416
26. Lavrentyev PJ, Gardner WS, Yang L (2000) Effects of the zebra mussel on nitrogen dynamics and the microbial community at the sediment-water interface. Aquat Microb Ecol 21: 187-194
27. Lin X, McCarthy MJ, Carini SA, Gardner WS (2011) Net, actual, and potential sediment-water interface NH4 + fluxes in the northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOMEX): evidence for NH4 + limitation of microbial dynamics. Cont Shelf Res 31: 120-128
28. Lozán JL, Kausch H (1996) Warnsignale aus Flüssen und Ästuaren. Parey, Berlin
29. McCarthy MJ, Gardner WS (2003) An application of membrane inlet mass spectrometry to measure denitrification in a recirculating mariculture system. Aquaculture 218: 341-355
30. Middelburg JJ, Nieuwenhuize J (2000a) Nitrogen uptake by heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton in the nitraterich Thames estuary. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 203: 13-21
31. Middelburg JJ, Nieuwenhuize J (2000b) Uptake of dissolved inorganic nitrogen in turbid, tidal estuaries. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 192: 79-88
32. Middelburg JJ, Soetaert K, Herman PMJ, Heip CHR (1996) Denitrification in marine sediments: a model study. Global Biogeochem Cycles 10: 661-673
33. Miehlich G, Gröngröft A, Jähnig U, Neuschmidt O, Walter F, Franke S, Schwartz R (1997) Umweltverträglichkeitsstudie 'Anpassung der Fahrrinne der Unter- und Außenelbe an die Containerschiffahrt'. Materialband III: Fach gut - achten Sedimente, Hamburg
34. Nielsen LP (1992) Denitrification in sediment determined from nitrogen isotope pairing. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 86: 357-362
35. Nielsen LP, Brotas V, Viaroli P, Underwood GJC and others (2000) Protocol handbook for NICE: nitrogen cycling in estuaries. A project under EU research programme: marine science and technology (MAST III). National Environmental Research Institute, Silkeborg
36. Nixon SW, Ammerman JW, Atkinson LP, Berounsky VM and others (1996) The fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeochemistry 35: 141-180
37. Pätsch J, Lenhart H-J (2011) Daily nutrient loads of nutrients, total alkalinity, dissolved inorganic carbon and dissolved organic carbon of the European continental rivers for the years 1977-2009. Berichte aus dem Zentrum fuer Meeres- und Klimaforschung, Reihe B: Ozeanographie. Zentrum für Meeres- und Klimaforschung, Hamburg
38. Pätsch J, Serna A, Dähnke K, Schlarbaum T, Johannsen A, Emeis KC (2010) Nitrogen cycling in the German Bight (SE North Sea) - Clues from modelling stable nitrogen isotopes. Cont Shelf Res 30: 203-213
39. Radach G, Pätsch J (2007) Variability of continental riverine freshwater and nutrient inputs into the North Sea for the years 1977-2000 and its consequences for the assessment of eutrophication. Estuaries Coasts 30: 66-81
40. Risgaard-Petersen N, Nielsen LP, Rysgaard S, Dalsgaard T, Meyer RL (2003) Application of the isotope pairing technique in sediments where anammox and denitrification coexist. Limnol Oceanogr Methods 1: 63-73
41. Schröder F, Wiltshire KH, Klages D, Mathieu B, Knauth HD (1996) Nitrogen and oxygen processes in sediments of the Elbe estuary. Arch Hydrobiol 110(Suppl 110): 311-328
42. Seitzinger SP (1988) Denitrification in freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems: ecological and geochemical significance. Limnol Oceanogr 33: 702-724
43. Seitzinger SP, Giblin AE (1996) Estimating denitrification in North Atlantic continental shelf sediments. Biogeochemistry 35: 235-274
44. Seitzinger SP, Nixon SW (1985) Eutrophication and the rate of denitrification and N2O production in coastal marine sediments. Limnol Oceanogr 30: 1332-1339
45. Sørensen J, Jørgensen BB, Revsbech NP (1979) Comparison of oxygen, nitrate, and sulfate respiration in coastal marine sediments. Microb Ecol 5: 105-115
46. Steingruber SM, Friedrich J, Gächter R, Wehrli B (2001) Measurement of denitrification in sediments with the 15N isotope pairing technique. Appl Environ Microbiol 67: 3771-3778
47. Sweerts J, Bargilissen MJ, Cornelese AA, Cappenberg TE (1991) Oxygen-consuming processs at the profundal and littoral sediment water interface of a small mesoeutrophic lake (Lake Vechten, The Netherlands). Limnol Oceanogr 36: 1124-1133
48. Thamdrup B (2012) New pathways and processes in the global nitrogen cycle. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 43: 407-428
49. Thamdrup B, Dalsgaard T (2002) Production of N2 through anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled to nitrate re - duction in marine sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol 68: 1312-1318
50. Trimmer M, Nicholls JC (2009) Production of nitrogen gas via anammox and denitrification in intact sediment cores along a continental shelf to slope transect in the North Atlantic. Limnol Oceanogr 54: 577-589
51. van Beusekom JEE, Weigelt-Krenz S, Martens P (2008) Long-term variability of winter nitrate concentrations in the Northern Wadden Sea driven by freshwater discharge, decreasing riverine loads and denitritication. Helgol Mar Res 62: 49-57
52. Van Luijn F, Boers PCM, Lijklema L, Sweerts J (1999) Nitrogen fluxes and processes in sandy and muddy sediments from a shallow eutrophic lake. Water Res 33: 33-42
53. Weiss RF (1970) The solubility of nitrogen, oxygen and argon in water and seawater. Deep-Sea Res Oceanogr Abstr 17: 721-735