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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: A large CO2 sink enhanced by eutrophication in a tropical coastal embayment (Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Título em inglês: A large CO2 sink enhanced by eutrophication in a tropical coastal embayment (Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Autor(es): Cotovicz Júnior, Luiz Carlos
Knoppers, Bastiaan Adriaan
Brandini, Nilva
Costa Sousa, Suzan J.
Abril, Gwenaël
Palavras-chave: Dióxido de Carbono;Estuários;Costas
Data do documento: 2015
Instituição/Editor/Publicador: Biogeosciences Discussion
Citação: COTOVICZ JÚNIOR, Luiz C.; KNOPPERS, Bastiaan Adriaan; BRANDINI, Nilva; COSTA SANTOS, Suzan J.; ABRIL, Gwenaël. A large CO2 sink enhanced by eutrophication in a tropical coastal embayment (Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Biogeosciences Discussion, Germany, v. 12, p. 4671-4720, 2015.
Abstract: In contrast to its small surface area, the coastal zone plays a disproportionate role in the global carbon cycle. Carbon production, transformation, emission and burial rates at the land–ocean interface are still poorly known, especially in tropical regions. 5 Surface water pCO2 and ancillary parameters were monitored during nine field campaigns between April 2013 and April 2014 in Guanabara Bay, a tropical eutrophic to hypertrophic semi-enclosed estuarine embayment surrounded by the city of Rio de Janeiro, SE-Brazil. Water pCO2 varied between 22 and 3715 ppmv in the Bay showing spatial, diurnal and seasonal trends that mirrored those of dissolved oxygen 10 (DO) and Chlorophyll a (Chl a). Marked pCO2 undersaturation was prevalent in the shallow, confined and thermally stratified waters of the upper bay, whereas pCO2 oversaturation was restricted to sites close to the small river mouths and small sewage channels, which covered only 10 % of the bay’s area. Substantial daily variations in pCO2 (up to 395 ppmv between dawn and dusk) were also registered and could 15 be integrated temporally and spatially for the establishment of net diurnal, seasonal and annual CO2 fluxes. In contrast to other estuaries worldwide, Guanabara Bay behaved as a net sink of atmospheric CO2 , a property enhanced by the concomitant effects of strong radiation intensity, thermal stratification, and high availability of nutrients, which promotes phytoplankton development and net autotrophy. In the inner part of the bay, the calculated annual CO2 sink (−19.6 mol Cm2 yr−1 20 ) matched the organic carbon burial in the sediments reported in the literature. The carbon sink and autotrophy of Guanabara Bay was driven by planktonic primary production promoted by eutrophication, and by its typology of marine embayment lacking the classical extended estuarine mixing zone, in contrast to river-dominated estuarine systems, 25 which are generally net heterotrophic and CO2 emitters. Our results show that global CO2 budgetary assertions still lack information on tropical estuarine embayments and lagoons, which are affected by thermal stratification and eutrophication and behave specifically with respect to atmospheric CO2.
URI: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/59927
ISSN: 1726-4170
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