Compositions and spatio-temporal distributions of different nitrogen species and lability of dissolved organic nitrogen from the Dafengjiang River to the Sanniang Bay, China

Lü, Dongliang; Kang, Zhenjun; Yang, Bin; Dan, Solomon Felix; Zhang, Dong; Zhang, Peng; Huang, Haifang; Zhong, Qiuping

Compositions and spatio-temporal distributions of different nitrogen species and lability of dissolved organic nitrogen from the Dafengjiang River to the Sanniang Bay, China

2020

Field investigations and incubation experiment were carried out in the Dafengjiang River (DFJR) and Sanniang Bay (SNB) surface water from September 2017 to July 2018 to study the composition and spatio-temporal distributions of different nitrogen (N) species, lability of dissolved organic N (DON), and contributions of different N species from the DFJR to the dissolved inorganic N (DIN) level in the SNB. The spatio-temporal distributions of different N species exhibited significant seasonal variation (p < 0.05). The average contribution of DIN, DON, and particulate nitrogen (PN) to TN was 31.91%, 46.57%, and 21.52%, respectively. Comparatively being the dominant form of N in the study area, the average lability of DON across the incubation sites D1, D5 and D7 ranged from 72%–79%. DIN, DON, and PN from the DFJR respectively contributed to 55.95%, 7.03%, and 5.63% of water quality in the SNB.

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