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Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Distributions of total, inorganic and organic phosphorus in surface and recent sediments of the sub-tropical and semi-pristine Guaratuba Bay estuary, SE Brazil
Title in English: Distributions of total, inorganic and organic phosphorus in surface and recent sediments of the sub-tropical and semi-pristine Guaratuba Bay estuary, SE Brazil
Authors: Cotovicz Júnior, Luiz Carlos
Costa Machado, Eunice da
Brandini, Nilva
Zem, Rafaela Cristine
Knoppers, Bastiaan Adriaan
Keywords: Fósforo;Estuários;Brasil, Baía de Guaratuba (SE)
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: Environmental Earth Sciences
Citation: COTOVICZ JUNIOR, Luiz C.; MACHADO, Eunice da Costa; BRANDINI, Nilva; ZEM, Rafaela Cristine; KNOPPERS, Bastiaan Adriaan. Distributions of total, inorganic and organic phosphorus in surface and recent sediments of the sub-tropical and semi-pristine Guaratuba Bay estuary, SE Brazil. Environmental Earth Sciences, United States, v. 72, p. 373-386, 2013.
Abstract: This study addresses the distribution of total phosphorus (TP) and its inorganic (IP) and organic (OP) fractions, grain-size and organic matter of surface and recent sediments, coupled to the behavior of total and dissolved inorganic phosphorus (TP and DIP) of the water column, of the semi-pristine Guaratuba Bay estuary, SE Brazil. Surface sediment samples were taken at 43 sites spread along the estuarine gradient and recent sediments from 3 short (35 cm long) cores from the upper, central and lower portions of the estuary, respectively. Highest TP and IP concentrations of surface sediments were detected within the upper sector and the transition zone between the upper and central sectors, all characterized by fine sediments, low salinities and water depths. In contrast, the lower sector and its narrow and deep tidal channel, subject to more intense tidal forcing, exhibited a higher fraction of sandy sediments with lower TP, IP and OP contents. In spite of the spatial variability in sediment grain size, IP corresponded to the major fraction of TP in all estuarine sectors and both TP and IP correlated significantly with the fine sedimentary (silt ? clay) grain-size fraction. The fine surface sediments acted as a trap for IP at the fresh water– low salinity interface, which also corresponded to the region of a DIP sink in surface waters. In general, the short sediment cores showed that TP and IP contents increased from 15 cm depths to the top layer. Published sedimentation rates from additional cores taken at the sites of the short cores of this study, implied that depositional alterations of TP and IP increased during the early 1970s, which corresponded to the onset of anthropogenic disturbances from crop plantations in the lowland plains of the river endmember and urbanization at the estuary’s mouth and alongthe adjacent coast.
URI: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/59931
ISSN: 1866-6280
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