• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Bioavailability and remineralization rates of sediment-derived dissolved organic carbon from a Baltic Sea depositional area
  • Beteiligte: Lengier, Monika; Koziorowska-Makuch, Katarzyna; Szymczycha, Beata; Kuliński, Karol
  • Erschienen: Frontiers Media SA, 2024
  • Erschienen in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 11 (2024)
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1359563
  • ISSN: 2296-7745
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  • Beschreibung: This pilot study investigated the bioavailability and remineralization kinetics of the sediment-derived dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from the Gdańsk Deep, a depositional area in the Baltic Sea. This was assessed in the long-lasting (126 d) incubation experiment, in which the mixture of DOC from sediment pore water and bottom water was exposed to oxic microbial respiration with incubation of bottom water as a control run. The obtained decay curves allowed us to distinguish three DOC fractions: labile (DOCL), semi-labile (DOCSL), and refractory (DOCR). In bottom water, the refractory fraction was predominant and amounted to almost 85% of total DOC, whereas about 15% of DOC was bioavailable: 6% labile and 9% semi-labile. In contrast, DOC from pore water was much more bioavailable DOC (~55% of total DOC) and contained 11% DOCL and 44% DOCSL. The remineralization rate constants recalculated to the in situ temperature of 6°C for labile and semi-labile DOC in pore water were 0.025 d−1 and 0.002 d−1, respectively, whereas, in bottom water, 0.026 d−1 and 0.004 d−1. The half-life times for DOCL were comparable for both bottom water and pore water and amounted to 26.2 d and 27.6 d, respectively. For DOCSL, the half-life time was shorter for bottom water (165.5 d) than for pore water (322.9 d).
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