Bioavailable dissolved organic matter and its spatio-temporal variation in a river dominated tropical brackish water Lagoon, India
2018
Kanuri, Vishnu Vardhan | Muduli, Pradipta R. | R.S., Robin | B., Charan Kumar | A., Lova Raju | Patra, Sivaji | Gupta, G.V.M. | Nageswara Rao, G. | A.V., Raman | B.R., Subramanian
Bioavailable dissolved organic carbon (BDOC), nitrogen (BDON) and their degradation rate constants were measured for the Chilika Lagoon, India. Long-term laboratory incubation experiments (90 days) were conducted at a constant temperature (25 °C) to quantify the bioavailable dissolved organic matter (DOM) and the possible degradation rate coefficients. The results showed that 41 ± 12% of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and 47 ± 17% of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) were BDOC and BDON respectively, with their stoichiometry found to be higher than the Redfield ratio. A first order exponential non-linear fitting routine was used to estimate pool sizes. The degradation rate constant (k) for the BDOC varied from 0.127–0.329 d−1 and BDON from 0.043–0.306 d−1 during the study period. Half-lives of the BDOC and BDON ranged from 2.1–5.4 and 2.2–15.9 days, respectively. Overall, the results showed that a fraction of the labile DON was transported from the lagoon to the adjacent coastal sea.
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