期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 572, 期 -, 页码 1520-1533出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.046
关键词
Macronutrients; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Organic matter; Baseflow; Monitoring; High-resolution sampling; Autosamplers; Optical sensors; Groundwater-fed streams
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G001707/1]
- NERC-EA Knowledge Exchange Fellowship [NE/M019837/1]
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship (HotPaNTS) [657192]
- NERC [NE/G001707/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G001707/1, ceh010010] Funding Source: researchfish
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [657192] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
In agricultural catchments, diffuse nutrient fluxes (mainly nitrogen N and phosphorus P), are observed to pollute receiving waters and cause eutrophication. Organicmatter (OM) is important in mediating biogeochemical processes in freshwaters. Time series of the variation in nutrient and OMloads give insights into flux processes and their impact on biogeochemistry but are costly to maintain and challenging to analyse for elements that are highly reactive in the environment. We evaluated the capacity of the automatedmonitoring to capture typically low baseflow concentrations of the reactive forms of nutrients and OM: total reactive phosphorus (TRP), nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N) and tryptophan-like fluorescence (TLF). We compared the performance of in situ monitoring (wet chemistry analyser, UV-vis and fluorescence sensors) and automated grab sampling without instantaneous analysis using autosamplers. Wefound that automatic grab sampling shows storage transformations for TRP and TLF and do not reproduce the diurnal concentration pattern captured by the in situ analysers. The in situ TRP and fluorescence analysers respond to temperature variation and the relationship is concentration-dependent. Accurate detection of low P concentrations is particularly challenging due to large errors associated with both the in situ and autosampler measurements. Aquatic systems can be very sensitive to even low concentrations of P typical of baseflow conditions. Understanding transformations and measurement variability in reactive forms of nutrients and OM associated with in situ analysis is of great importance for understanding in-stream biogeochemical functioning and establishing robust monitoring protocols. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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