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Phosphate cycling in Bering Sea sediments. Background Questions Results Bering Sea Domains Importance of Benthos. Emily S Davenport, David H Shull and Allan H Devol. Image: C. Ashjian. 40-50%. 40-50%. Dissolved phosphate. Fe-bound phosphate. Organic phosphorus. Oxic sediments - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Phosphate cycling in Bering Sea sediments
Emily S Davenport, David H Shull and Allan H DevolImage: C. Ashjian
Background
Questions
Results
Bering Sea Domains
Importance of Benthos
Sediment surface
Dissolved phosphate
Oxic sediments
(Oxygen present) Organic phosphorus
Dissolved phosphate
Fe-bound phosphate
Anoxic sediments
(Minimal oxygen present)
Dissolved phosphate
Fe-bound phosphate
Organic phosphorus
Authigenic apatite
Adapted from Sundby et al. 1992
Organic phosphorus
40-50%
Fe-bound phosphate
40-50%
The role of the benthos in phosphorus geochemistry
Overlying water column
Oxic zone
Anoxic zone
Overlying water column
Oxic zone
Anoxic zone
HPO42-
HPO42-
HPO42-
HPO4+
Fe(OH)3
HPO4+
Fe(OH)3
HPO4+
Fe(OH)3
Fe2+
Fe2+
Fe2+
1. Does phosphate flux co-vary with oxygen flux?
2. Does phosphate flux co-vary with amorphous iron-hydroxide concentrations?
3. Does phosphate flux co-vary with burrow numbers?
Questions
Image: S. Dahle, NOAA
Alaska
St. Lawrence Island
Off shelf- Continental slope
and Aleutian Basin
Outer shelf
Middle shelf
Northern Bering shelf Alaska
St. Lawrence Island
200m
50m
100m
Phosphate adsorption
Image: D. Shull
Shake for 24 hours0µM, 10µM, 20µM, 30µM,
40µM or 50µM
20mL sediment
Centrifuge
Filter HPO42-
Outer-shelf domain
*All linear regressions are statistically significant at the α = 0.05 level
-200
20406080100
120
0 2 4 6 8 10-10
-5
0
5
10
15
20
25
0 5 10 15 20 -20
0
20
40
60
80
0 2 4 6
y=61.1x-393R2=0.824
y=3.10x-37.9R2=0.608
Station 31 Station 106Station 79
C (µmole L-1)
Final concentration of dissolved phosphate
C*
(µm
ole
kg-1)
Mas
s of
pho
spha
te a
dsor
bed/
deso
rbed
Freundlich isotherm: C*=KCK= linear adsorption coefficient
Middle-shelf domain
0
10
203040
5060
0 2 4 6 8 10 -20
0
20
40
60
80
0 1 2 3 40
20
40
60
80
100
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Station 21 Station 27 Station 59
C (µmole L-1)
Final concentration of dissolved phosphate
C*
(µm
ole
kg-1)
Mas
s of
pho
spha
te a
dsor
bed/
deso
rbed
Middle-shelf domain
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35-5
0
5
10
15
20
25
0 5 10 15 20 25 300510152025303540
0 15 30 45
Cinitial (µmole L-1)
ΔC
(C
final-C
initi
al; µ
mol
e L-1
)
y=0.983x-6.14R2=0.986
y=0.994x-2.98R2=0.999
y=1.01x-9.35R2=0.976
Station 21 Station 27 Station 59
*All linear regressions are statistically significant at the α = 0.05 level
Phosphate fluxes:Whole-core incubations
Images: D. Shull, A. Devol
M.I.M.S. SmartChem
Amorphous iron-hydroxides
Shake, 4 hours in the
dark
Centrifuge, dilute to
50mls and analyze for
iron on flame AAS
Ammonium oxalate, oxalic acid mixture
Chao and Zhou, 198325mL
Outer shelf vs. middle shelf:
Phosphate flux
Outer shelf: Phosphate flux co-varies with sediment oxygen consumption
-20
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
-4000-3500-3000-2500-2000-1500-1000-5000
Sediment oxygen consumption (µmole m-2 d-1)
Pho
spha
te f
lux
(µm
ole
m-2 d
-1)
y=-0.260x+9.25
R2=0.604
p=0.00819
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
0 50 100 150 200
Top 0.5-cm sediment amorphous iron-hydroxides (µmole g-1)
Top
0.5
-cm
por
e-w
ater
dis
solv
ed p
hosp
hate
(µ
mol
e L-1
)
y=-0.0279x+7.93R2=0.352F[1,8]=5.43p=0.0421
Outer shelf
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Burrow numbers
Pho
spha
te f
lux
(µm
ole
m-2 d
-1)
y= 2.07x-17.8
R2=0.751
p= 0.00117
Middle shelf: Phosphate flux co-varies with burrow numbers
Dissolved phosphate (µmole L-1)
0
5
10
15
20
25
0 20 40 60 80 100
Stn 21
Stn 27
Stn 59
Dep
th (
cm)
A special thanks to:Dr. Suzanne Strom
Funding from NSF
The captain and crew of the USCGC Healy
Bonnie Chang and Heather Whitney for assistance with sample processing
Erin Macri and Calvin Mordy for assistance with sample analysis
My family and friends for all their encouragement and support
QUESTIONS?
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