Seasonal and topographic variations in porewaters of a southeastern USA salt marsh as revealed by voltammetric profiling？ 英文参考文献.docVIP

Seasonalandtopographicvariationsinporewatersofasoutheastern USAsaltmarshasrevealedbyvoltammetricpro?ling{ DavidC.BullandMartialTaillefert* SchoolofEarthandAtmosphericSciences,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology,Atlanta, GA30332-0340,USA.E-mail:mtaillef@eas.gatech.edu;Fax:z1(404)8945638;Tel: z14048946043 Article Received19thSeptember2001,Accepted23rdOctober2001 PublishedontheWeb1stNovember2001FirstpublishedasanAdvancedArticleontheweb19thOctober2001 Wereportelectrochemicalpro?lesfromunvegetatedsur?cialsedimentsofaGeorgiasaltmarsh.Increekbank sediments,theabsenceofSH2SorFeSaq andthepresenceofFe( )–organiccomplexessuggestthatMnandFe III reductiondominatesoveratleastthetopca.5cmofthesedimentcolumn,consistentwithotherrecentresults. Inunvegetated?ats,accumulationofSH2SindicatesthatSO422reductiondominatesoverthesamedepth.A summerreleaseofdissolvedorganicspeciesfromthedominanttallformSpartinaalterni?ora,togetherwith elevatedtemperatures,appearstoresultinincreasedSO422reductionintensityandhencehighsummer concentrationsofSH2Sin?atsediments.However,increasedbioturbationand/orbioirrigationseemtoprevent thisfromhappeninginbanksediments.Studiesofbiogeochemicalprocessesinsaltmarshesneedtotakesuch spatialandtemporalvariationsintoaccountifwearetodevelopagoodunderstandingofthesehighly productiveecosystems.Furthermore,multidimensionalanalysesarenecessarytoobtainadequatequantitative picturesofsuchheterogeneoussediments. Introduction voltammetric electrodes, lowered together into the sediment atwell-de?nedpositionsandscannedsequentially,toconstruct temporally and spatially synchronised 3D pro?les of sedi- ment porewaters for the ?rst time. This constitutes a further steptowardadequateportrayalsofthesecomplexsystems. Much of the Atlantic coast of North America is bordered by salt marshes dominated by Spartina spp. grasses. These marshes are extremely productive environments exhibiting rapid geochemical cycling.1 Factors such as tidal regime, temperature,topography,hydrology,vegetation,inf