Achieving nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) control in sediment remediation projects by adding natural materials is receiving increasing attention. In this study, different natural materials, including iron-rich clay minerals, calcite, kaoline, sugarcane bagasse and Phragmites detritus, were applied to test their effects on N and P in a mesocosm experiment.
Sediment nutrients can be released to the surface water when hydraulic disturbance becomes strong in shallow lakes, which contributes to nutrient enrichment and subsequent lake eutrophication in the water column. To explore the seasonal variations and spatial distributions exhibited by nutrients in the water column, surface sediment, and pore water of Lake …
Nitrogen is a requisite and highly demanded element for living organisms on Earth. However, increasing human activities have greatly altered the global nitrogen cycle, especially in rivers and streams, resulting in eutrophication, formation of hypoxic zones, and increased production of N2O, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic ratios are increasingly used in sediment finger studies. However, questions remain regarding tracer …
What they did find was that generally the sediments under aquaculture sites with bag and rack setups in Ninigret Pond were removing more nitrogen (almost 400 micromoles per squared meter per hour), compared to bare sediment nitrogen removal rates in Narragansett Bay (40 to 85 micromoles in mid-Narragansett Bay and the Providence River estuary ...
Primary production in coastal waters is generally nitrogen (N) limited with denitrification outpacing nitrogen fixation (N2-fixation). However, recent work suggests that we have potentially underestimated the importance of heterotrophic sediment N2-fixation in marine ecosystems. We used clone libraries to examine transcript diversity of nifH (a gene associated …
Suggested controls on rates of Potomac River estuary nutrient efflux include bioirrigation, anoxia, and wind-driven sediment resuspension (Callender, 1982; Callender and Hammond, 1982; Simon, 1989). A mass balance of nitrogen suggested average annual fluxes of of ∼150 μmol m −2 h −1 and an assumption of denitrification rates about 20 ...
These results suggested that the bacterial communities in water and sediment of this eutrophic river-lake system had strong functional potentials but different strategies in nitrogen removal. In contrast to nitrogen removal, bacterial communities in sediment also had a higher relative abundance of genes associated with nitrogen fixation.
Sedimentation is recommended as simple pre-treatment of water prior to application of other purification treatments such as filtration and disinfection methods. It removes undesirable small particulate suspended matters (sand, silt and clay) and some biological contaminants from water under the influence of gravity.
As denitrification in anoxic marsh sediment increases, nitrogen is removed from sediment, and the remaining sedimentary pool of nitrogen is enriched in the heavy isotope. Above 42.5 cm depth, however, this relationship changes dramatically. Both %N and δ 15 N increase to values not observed previously. We interpret this change to be related to ...
Gardner, W. S., and McCarthy, M. J. (2009). Nitrogen dynamics at the sediment–water interface in shallow, sub-tropical Florida bay: why denitrification efficiency may decrease with increased eutrophication. Biogeochemistry 95, 185–198. doi: 10.1007/s10533-009-9329-5. CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar
Nitrogen Regeneration in Sediments Samantha B. Joye*t and James T. Hollibaugh Nitrification, a central process in the nitrogen cycle, converts ammonium to nitrite or nitrate. In experiments with estuarine sediment, addition of 60 and 100 PFM hydrogen sulfide (HS-) reduced nitrification by 50 and 100 percent, respectively. Aerobic incubation
Chapter 2: Pollution by sediments. Although agriculture contributes to a wide range of water quality problems, anthropogenic erosion and sedimentation is a global issue that tends to be primarily associated with agriculture. While there are no global figures, it is probable that agriculture, in the broadest context, is responsible for much of ...
TN total nitrogen SCL U.S. Geological Survey Sediment Chemistry Laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia SSC suspended-sediment concentration USGS U.S. Geological Survey Glossary of Total-Nitrogen Methods DN dissolved nitrogen, measured by the use of alkaline-persulfate digestion of a filtered sample NO X dissolved nitrate (NO 3) plus nitrite (NO 2
The lack of data about sediment transport into estuaries from rivers makes it extremely difficult to develop an accurate sediment budget for estuaries (Horne and Patton 1989). Sediment budgets are necessary for long-term planning in coastal areas. Sedimentation in the fluvial/estuarine interface is another area that requires more in-depth research.
FIGURE 4.Nitrogen isotope compositions and C/N ratio in the Dziani Dzaha surface sediment. The dashed blue areas represent the δ 15 N SPM and C/N average values observed in the water column above 2 or 14 m depth during stratified or non-stratified period, respectively. The dashed red areas represent the δ 15 N SPM and C/N average values observed in the water column …
Although sediment degradation can take place over centuries or thousands of years, the degradation rate decreases over time.49 A study that tracked organic carbon and nitrogen over 27 years indicated that 86%–87% of sedimentary carbon and nitrogen loss occurred within the first 5 years and that the older sediments lost less than 1% of ...
Eutrophication of lakes and reservoirs has become a worldwide environmental problem, and nitrogen (N) has been recognized as one of the key factors responsible for eutrophication. Nitrogen adsorbed on sediments may be released via chemical and biological processes under changing environmental conditions. Spatial distributions of concentrations of …
A method for advanced nitrogen and phosphorus removal in sewage treatment includes the following steps: feeding raw water and return sludge into a pre-denitrification zone for denitrification; allowing a sludge-containing mixed liquor discharged from the pre-denitrification zone to enter an anaerobic zone to undergo a biological phosphorus removal reaction; …
Nitrogen-fixing prokaryotes (diazotrophs) contribute substantially to nitrogen input in mangrove sediments, and their structure and nitrogen fixation rate (NFR) are significantly controlled by environmental conditions. Despite the well-known studies on diazotrophs in surficial sediments, the diversity, structure, and ecological functions of diazotrophic communities along …
Excessive nitrogen (N) input is one of the most important causative factors of lake eutrophication, which has aroused increasing public attention in past decades. Estrogen contamination is also an increasing environmental problem in aquatic systems …
Numerous studies have suggested suspension-feeding bivalves may promote denitrification and thus serve an important function in reducing bioavailable N and subsequently eutrophication (e.g., Rose et al. 2014). However, this study, which is, to our knowledge, the first to measure sediment N cycling processes associated with clam aquaculture in ...
Sediment is a natural part of aquatic habitats. However, its quantity and characteristics can affect the physical, chemical and biological integrity of aquatic ecosystems (U.S. EPA 2006a). Figure 3. Example of excessive deposited & bedded sediment.
The responses of bacterial community and N 2 O emission to nitrogen input in lake sediment: Estrogen as a co-pollutant Environ Res . 2019 Dec;179(Pt A):108769. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108769.
Identifying nitrogen (N) pollution sources is the fundamental work of non-point source pollution load reduction from watersheds, but is hard due to complex N transport and transformation within spatially heterogenized huge areas. During September 2011, we measured water characteristics and sediment N stable isotope in four tributaries of the upper reach of …
In Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii sediment nitrogen fixation has been calculated to contribute 11% of the annual nitrogen input . Nitrogen budgets calculated by Smith [70] for Shark Bay, Australia and two Pacific island atolls suggest that nitrogen fixation is the principal nitrogen input into these oligotrophic ecosystems.
of sediment, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus accumulation in. forested wetlands, oligohaline marshes, and salt marshes (Craft ... low sedimen t delivery to thi s system, it …
Sediment δ 13 C values were relatively low in the fjord that varied from −21.6‰ to −22.9‰, and this could be due to low CO 2 concentrations in the ambient environment. The isotopic value proves that the carbon supply in the fjord sediment is linked to the marine source largely from single-celled phytoplankton in the photic zones.
Restricted and Restored Marsh Sedimentation 239 0.20 in controlling the overall accretion rate has b e e n o suggested by others (Bricker-Urso et al. 1989; Cal- laway et al. 1997), a n d is c o n f i r m e d by the fact that q~" 0.15 S i the correlation between OM accumulation and overall accretion for o u r cores is substantially stron- L "?ZJ ...
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic ratios are increasingly used in sediment finger studies. However, questions remain regarding tracer …
Nutrients and sedimentation were monitored for approximately 2 years at six sites in the St. Thomas East End Reserves (STEER), St. Thomas, USVI, as part of a NOAA project to develop an integrated environmental assessment. Concentrations of ammonium (NH 4 + ) …
The composition of sediments and other materials occurring in streams, geochemical processes within the drainage basin, and various land uses are among the main factors influencing stream water composition. Stream sediment and wildfire ash samples were gathered from the area studied. The applied methodology consists of aqua regia and …
Data on sediment organic carbon and nitrogen content and sediment fractions of mud, sand, and gravel were requested from SEPA for the Firth of Clyde. SEPA measurements of organic carbon and nitrogen content were taken from the <63 µm grain size fraction rather than the whole sediment. Using these values directly would over-predict organic ...