Quantifying nitrate dynamics in an oligotrophic lake using Δ17O

Tsunogai U.; Daita S.; Komatsu D. D.; Nakagawa F.; Tanaka A.

タイトル	en Quantifying nitrate dynamics in an oligotrophic lake using Δ17O
作成者	en Tsunogai, U. NRID 1000050313367 en Daita, S. en Komatsu, D. D. en Nakagawa, F. en Tanaka, A. NRID 1000010197402
アクセス権	open access
権利情報	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ en Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
主題	NDC 452
内容注記	Abstract en The stable isotopic compositions of nitrate, including the 17O anomalies (Δ17O), were determined twice in 1 yr (June and August 2007) in the oligotrophic water column of Lake Mashu, Japan. These data were then used to quantify the geochemical dynamics of nitrate in the lake, by using the deposition rate of the atmospheric nitrate onto the entire catchment area of the lake. The total amount of nitrate in the lake water decreased from 4.2 to 2.1 Mmol during the period between the observations, while the average Δ17O values remained uniform at + 2.5‰. The Δ17O values corresponded to an small and uniform mixing ratio of atmospheric nitrate to total nitrate of 9.7 ± 0.8%. These results indicate that 0.52 ± 0.34 Mmol of the remineralized nitrate was fed into the water column through nitrification, while 2.6 ± 0.4 Mmol of nitrate was simultaneously removed from the water column by assimilation, during the period between the observations. The lake water dissolved nitrate was characterized by rapid removal through assimilation during summer until it was almost completely removed from the euphotic layer, as well as continuous feeding into the lake through nitrification (3.2 ± 0.3 Mmol a^[-1]) and deposition (0.35 ± 0.2 Mmol a^[-1]), regardless of the seasons. The 15N-depleted nitrogen isotopic compositions of nitrate were as low as -6.5‰ in June, which also indicates that in-lake nitrification is the major source of nitrate in the lake and suggests that there is low potential for denitrification in and around the lake. Atmospheric nitrate deposited into the lake will be assimilated quickly, having a mean residence time of 1.2 ± 0.1 yr. In addition, more than 90% of the assimilated nitrate will be remineralized to nitrate and re-assimilated via active nitrogen cycling in the lake.
出版者	en Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
日付	Issued2011-03-17
言語	eng
資源タイプ	journal article
出版タイプ	VoR
資源識別子	HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/45251
関連	isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-687-2011
収録誌情報	PISSN 1726-4170 en Biogeosciences 巻8 号3 開始ページ687 終了ページ702
ファイル	fulltext BG8-3_687-702.pdf 1.04 MB (application/pdf) Issued2011-03-17
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