Particulate organic matter dynamics in coastal systems of the northern Beibu Gulf

Variation pattern of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen in oceans and inland waters

“…Coastal water with relatively high POC and PON levels has a low POC/PON ratio in the northern and south hemisphere (Table S4). This is inconsistent with 195 previous studies that show coastal water has a higher POC/PON ratio than offshore water (Sterner et al, 2008;Kaiser et al, 2014;Watanabe and Kuwae, 2015) due to the discharge of terrestrial organic matter (Hilton et al, 2015;Cai, Y.H. et al, 2015).…”

Profiles and inventories of organic pollutants in sediments from the central Beibu Gulf and its coastal mangroves

“…The study region has a macro tidal environment and experiences episodic storm events. The climate, hydrography, and biogeochemistry, as well as organic pollution in surface sediments of the central gulf and the northern coastal and estuarine waters have been described in recent studies (Bauer et al, 2013;Kaiser et al, 2015aKaiser et al, , 2014Li et al, 2015;Wu et al, 2008).…”

“…Organic carbon content of samples (TOC) from mangroves and from the Beibu Gulf was analyzed by combustion methods as described by Kaiser et al (2014) and Leipe et al (2010), respectively.…”

Processes controlling the seasonal and spatial variations in sulfate profiles in the pore water of the sediments surrounding Qi'ao Island, Pearl River Estuary, Southern China

“…The biogeochemical processes that occur in estuaries can regulate the fluxes of riverine material inputs by loads of detritus and dissolved and particulate organic matter (Volkman et al, 2000;Zhu et al, 2002;Rullkötter, 2006;Freese et al, 2008;Kaiser et al, 2014). In estuarine environments, the presence of relatively high organic matter in the sediments often leads to a change in conditions from an oxidizing to a reducing just below the top few centimeters or at the sediment-water interface, and a large fraction of the organic matters in this system is decomposed through an anaerobic process (Alongi, 1995;Martens et al, 1998).…”