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Pan, Ke; Zheng, Xinqing; Liu, Xinming; Jiang, Hao*
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Jiang, Hao* |
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WATER RESEARCH
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Nitrogen cycling in a tropical coral reef ecosystem under severe anthropogenic disturbance in summer: Insights from isotopic compositions |
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Coral reefs, one of the most productive ecosystems, have been dramatically declining in recent decades. While studies contend a prominent correlation between coral reef degradation and increased anthropogenic nitrogen (N) loads, a quantitative description of the N sources and cycling processes in these ecologically important ecosystems is lacking. Through a comprehensive depiction of the delta15N compositions of seawaters and sediments, we systematically accessed the N cycling processes in the Weizhou coral reef ecosystem. The correlations between the nitrate (NO3-) concentrations and isotopic compositions (delta15N/delta18O-NO3-) indicated the pelagic NO3- loads were largely regulated by mixing between precipitation and sewage. Biological NO3- turnover processes appeared to be weak. In the sediments, N2 fixation contributed about one-third of the sedimentary organic N, with the rest coming from the settlement of pelagic organic N. We also uncovered significant sedimentary mineralization-nitrification-denitrification processes in which the N loss was greater than the input. While pelagic N significantly contributed to the sedimentary N, the N export from the sediments to surface seawater was potentially short-circuited by the high N retention and recycling efficiencies of the organisms in the coral reef ecosystem. Overall, this study shows that the complex N cycling processes in the ecosystem are effectively reflected in the isotopic compositions of seawater and sediment, thus adding an important dimension to understanding the N cycling in coral reef ecosystems. |
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2021
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11.236
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DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2021.117824 |
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