Records of bulk organic matter and plant pigments in sediment of the “red-tide zone” adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary

Zhenjun Kang; Rencheng Yu; Fanzhou Kong; Yunfeng Wang; Yan Gao; Jianhua Chen; Wei Guo; Mingjiang Zhou

doi:10.1007/s00343-016-4313-0

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Records of bulk organic matter and plant pigments in sediment of the “red-tide zone” adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary

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- Records of bulk organic matter and plant pigments in sediment of the “red-tide zone” adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 34, Issue 5, Pages: 915-927(2016)
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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  3. Qinzhou University
  4. Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-016-4313-0
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Kang, Z., Yu, R., Kong, F. et al. Records of bulk organic matter and plant pigments in sediment of the “red-tide zone” adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 34, 915–927 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-016-4313-0
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Kang, Z., Yu, R., Kong, F. et al. Records of bulk organic matter and plant pigments in sediment of the “red-tide zone” adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 34, 915–927 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-016-4313-0 DOI：

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Cultural eutrophication caused by nutrient over-enrichment in coastal waters will lead to a cascading set of ecosystem changes and deleterious ecological consequences

such as harmful algal blooms (HABs) and hypoxia. During the past two decades since the late 1990s

recurrent large-scale HABs (red tides) and an extensive hypoxic zone have been reported in the coastal waters adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary. To retrieve the history of eutrophication and its associated ecosystem changes

a sediment core was collected from the “red-tide zone” adjacent to the Changjiang River estuary. The core was dated using the 210Pb radioisotope and examined for multiple proxies

including organic carbon (OC)

total nitrogen (TN)

stable isotopes of C and N

and plant pigments. An apparent up-core increase of OC content was observed after the 1970s

accompanied by a rapid increase of TN. The concurrent enrichment of δ13C and increase of the C/N ratio suggested the accumulation of organic matter derived from marine primary production during this stage. The accumulation of OC after the 1970s well reflected the significant increase of primary production in the red-tide zone and probably the intensification of hypoxia as well. Plant pigments

including chlorophyll a

β-carotene

and diatoxanthin

showed similar patterns of variation to OC throughout the core

which further confirmed the important contribution of microalgae

particularly diatoms

to the deposited organic matter. Based on the variant profiles of the pigments representative of different microalgal groups

the potential changes of the phytoplankton community since the 1970s were discussed.

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