期刊
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
卷 29, 期 1, 页码 96-111出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013GB004736
关键词
coastal carbon cycle; estuarine net ecosystem production; estuarine net community production; estuarine metabolism; total organic carbon; coastal carbon synthesis
资金
- United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Hypoxia Research Program [CHRP-NAO7NOS4780191]
- National Science Foundation [CBEO-3 BERS-0618986]
- NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1237140] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Net ecosystem production (NEP) and the overall organic carbon budget for the estuaries along the East Coast of the United States are estimated. We focus on the open estuarine waters, excluding the fringing wetlands. We developed empirical models relating NEP to loading ratios of dissolved inorganic nitrogen to total organic carbon, and carbon burial in the sediment to estuarine water residence time and total nitrogen input across the landward boundary. Output from a data-constrained water quality model was used to estimate inputs of total nitrogen and organic carbon to the estuaries across the landward boundary, including fluvial and tidal-wetland sources. Organic carbon export from the estuaries to the continental shelf was computed by difference, assuming steady state. Uncertainties in the budget were estimated by allowing uncertainties in the supporting model relations. Collectively, U.S. East Coast estuaries are net heterotrophic, with the area-integrated NEP of -1.5 (-2.8, -1.0)TgCyr(-1) (best estimate and 95% confidence interval) and area-normalized NEP of -3.2 (-6.1, -2.3)molCm(-2)yr(-1). East Coast estuaries serve as a source of organic carbon to the shelf, exporting 3.4 (2.0, 4.3)TgCyr(-1) or 7.6 (4.4, 9.5)molCm(-2)yr(-1). Organic carbon inputs from fluvial and tidal-wetland sources for the region are estimated at 5.4 (4.6, 6.5)TgCyr(-1) or 12 (10, 14)molCm(-2)yr(-1) and carbon burial in the open estuarine waters at 0.50 (0.33, 0.78)TgCyr(-1) or 1.1 (0.73, 1.7)molCm(-2)yr(-1). Our results highlight the importance of estuarine systems in the overall coastal budget of organic carbon, suggesting that in the aggregate, U.S. East Coast estuaries assimilate (via respiration and burial) similar to 40% of organic carbon inputs from fluvial and tidal-wetland sources and allow similar to 60% to be exported to the shelf.
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