Sediment-water exchange in Lake Grevelingen under different environmental conditions

doi:10.1016/0077-7579(84)90007-3

Netherlands Journal of Sea Research

Volume 18, Issues 3–4, December 1984, Pages 286-311

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Abstract

The impact of various environmental factors on the phosphate and silicate sediment-water exchange in Lake Grevelingen has been investigated in a series of laboratory experiments under aerobic conditions. Silicate mobilization from the sediment showed a strong temperature dependence, with fluxes ranging from 5 ± 3.2 mg Si·m⁻²·d⁻¹ at 5°C to 85 ± 18 mg Si·m⁻²·d⁻¹ at 20°C. Phosphate mobilization fluxes ranged from 0.5 ± 0.7 mg PO₄-P·m⁻²·d⁻¹ at 5°C to 11 ± 3.4 mg P·m⁻²·d⁻¹ at 20°C.

The phosphate exchange fluxes showed a significantly linear negative correlation with the phosphate concentrations in the overlying water, in accordance with Fick's first law of diffusion. High P accumulation rates into the sediment were especially found at low water temperatures. Resuspension of the upper sediment layer was shown to enhance these P accumulation rates even more.

Based on the results of four different sediment types, general relationships have been derived for the phosphate sediment-water exchange as a function of water temperature and phosphate concentration in Lake Grevelingen. The results have successfully been applied in a simulation model for the phosphate concentration in Lake Grevelingen over the years 1974–1977.

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Sediment-water exchange in Lake Grevelingen under different environmental conditions☆

Abstract

Geochim. cosmochim. Acta

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Water Res.

Estuar. coast. mar. Sci.

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Geochim. cosmochim. Acta

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Water Res.

Estuar. coast. Shelf Sci.

Water Res.

Ecol. Modelling

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Geochim. cosmochim. Acta

Water Res.

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Mar. Geol.

Estuar. coast. mar. Sci.

Water Res.

Neth. J. Sea Res.

Chemical analysis of ecological material

Spatial and temporal patterns of dissolved ammonium, manganese and silica fluxes from bottom sediments of Long Island Sound, U.S.A.

J. mar. Res.

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Ophelia

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