Nitrogen forms and decomposition of organic carbon in the southern Bohai Sea core sediments

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    摘要 Studyonformcharacteristicsofnitrogeninmarinesedimentsistheprimarymethodtoresearchitsbiogeochemicalcyclingandnitrogenformcharacteristicsincoresedimentscanreflecttheprocessandresultsofearlydiagenesisinacertaindegree.Inthispaper,SequentialextractionprocessinnaturalgrainsizewasusedforstudyingtheexistentformsofnitrogeninfivecoresedimentsofthesouthernBohaiSeaforthefirsttime.Nitrogenwasdividedintotwoparts-transferableandfixedbasedonwhetheritcouldbeextractedbythereagent.DistributionsandearlydiagenesisoftransferablenitrogenformsinthesouthernBohaiSeawereresearchedintegratedly.ResultsindicatethatIEF-NandOSFNarepredominantformsintransferablepartinthestudiedcoresediments.Contentsofdifferentnitrogenformsvarydifferentlywithdepth,andhavedifferentdiagenesisprocess.Decompositionconstantoforganicnitrogen(ON)andOCareabout15.51×10-3a-1and4.79×10-3a-1respectively,andthedecompositioncontentofbiogenicelementsC,N,P,SihasthesequenceN>P>C>Si.OC/TN(simplifiedasC/Ninthefollowing)ratioismuchlowerthanOC/ON,whichindicatesthatsedimentpreservesplentyofinorganicnitrogen(IN)and/orfixednitrogen,andthedecreaseofOC/ONratiowithdepthisduetoONreservationinsediments.Generally,transferablenitrogenaccountsformoreproportionofTNinthesurfacelayerthaninthedeeplayerofcoresediments,whereas,somestableformsofnitrogencanactivateandbecometransferableunderappropriateenvironment,whichinducestheproportionoftransferablenitrogeninTNinthedeeplayertobealmostthesameasthatinthesurfacelayer.
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    出处 《海洋学报:英文版》 2002年1期
    出版日期 2002年01月11日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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