Nitrate consumption in sediments of the German Bight (North Sea)

Neumann, A.; van Beusekom, J.E.E.; Holtappels, M.; Emeis, Kay

doi:10.1016/j.seares.2017.06.012

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Nitrate consumption in sediments of the German Bight (North Sea)

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Neumann, A., van Beusekom, J., Holtappels, M., & Emeis, K. (in press). Nitrate consumption in sediments of the German Bight (North Sea). Journal of Sea Research, early view, available online. doi:10.1016/j.seares.2017.06.012.

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Denitrification on continental margins and in coastal sediments is a major sink of reactive N in the present nitrogen cycle and a major ecosystem service of eutrophied coastal waters. We analyzed the nitrate removal in surface sediments of the Elbe estuary, Wadden Sea, and adjacent German Bight (SE North Sea) during two seasons (spring and summer) along a eutrophication gradient ranging from a high riverine nitrate concentrations at the Elbe Estuary to offshore areas with low nitrate concentrations. The gradient encompassed the full range of sediment types and organic carbon concentrations of the southern North Sea. Based on nitrate penetration depth and concentration gradient in the porewater we estimated benthic nitrate consumption rates assuming either diffusive transport in cohesive sediments or advective transport in permeable sediments. For the latter we derived a mechanistic model of porewater flow. During the peak nitrate discharge of the river Elbe in March, the highest rates of diffusive nitrate uptake were observed in muddy sediments (up to 2.8mmolm-2 d-1). The highest advective uptake rate in that period was observed in permeable sediment and was tenfold higher (up to 32mmolm-2 d-1). The intensity of both diffusive and advective nitrate consumption dropped with the nitrate availability and thus decreased from the Elbe estuary towards offshore stations, and were further decreased during late summer (minimum nitrate discharge) compared to late winter (maximum nitrate discharge). In summary, our rate measurements indicate that the permeable sediment accounts for up to 90 of the total benthic reactive nitrogen consumption in the study area due to the high efficiency of advective nitrate transport into permeable sediment. Extrapolating the averaged nitrate consumption of different sediment classes to the areas of Elbe Estuary, Wadden Sea and eastern German Bight amounts to an N-loss of 3.1*106 molNd-1 from impermeable, diffusion-controlled sediment, and 5.2*107 molNd-1 from permeable sediment with porewater advection. © 2017.