Biogeochemistry of particulate organic matter transported by the Godavari River, India：（生物地球化学微粒有机物质运输的戈达瓦里河,印度）.pdfVIP

Biogeochemistry 38: 103–128, 1997. c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Biogeochemistry of particulate organic matter transported by the Godavari River, India 1 1 LALLAN PRASAD GUPTA , VAITHYANATHAN SUBRAMANIAN VENUGOPALAN ITTEKKOT2 1School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110 067, India; 2Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany Received 3 September 1996; accepted 30 December 1996 Key words: allochthonous transport, carbon cycle, particulate amino acids, particulate organic matter, Godavari River Abstract. The Godavari River, the third largest river of India, has been sampled for Particulate Inorganic and Organic Carbon (PIC, POC), Particulate Nitrogen (PN), and Particulate Amino Acids (PAA, including 2 hexosamines (HA)). During the dry season Particulate Organic Matter (POM) in the upper reaches is relatively fresh and autochthonous, in the lower reaches it is degraded and inorganic suspended matter content is higher here. In the wet season (wet monsoon) heavy rains cause a basin-wide flushing of humus from entire catchment area consequently POM in the river is mainly degraded and allochthonous. Annual transport of 6 6 6 the Godavari River amounts to 2.81  10 ton POC, 0.29  10 ton PN and 0.10  10 ton Particulate Amino Acid Nitrogen. These amounts rank the Godavari River to one of the most important organic carbon transporting rivers in the world. Introduction River input into the ocean is an important link in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon between its two major pools viz. land and ocean. The carbon compounds in thes