| Tracking the evolution of particulate organic matter sources duringsummer storm events via end-member mixing analysis based onspectroscopic proxies |
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학술지명 Chemosphere
저자 최광순
발표일 2020-03-11
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Despite the growing attention to the effects of hydrological precipitation on organic carbon export alongthe continuum land-river-ocean, limited effort has been made to understand the export and the reactivityof particulate organic carbon (POC) compared to those of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Yet,further understanding of the controlling mechanisms on the export of particulate organic matter (POM)from terrestrial systems is fundamental. In this study, we assessed the temporal changes of the sourcecontributions to riverine POM in two adjacent rivers of the same watershed during two summer stormevents, which included the early and the late events, using end-member mixing analysis (EMMA) basedon spectroscopic proxies. The EMMA showed relatively high contributions of terrestrial materials to theriverine POM for both rivers during the early summer storm event. However, this trend did not persistuntil the late summer storm event, which presented the decreased contributions of the terrestrialsources and less dynamic changes in the source distributions compared to those observed in the earlysummer rain event. These results demonstrate the combined impacts of the land use/surrounding area,the hydrology, and the intra-seasonal variations on the dominant riverine POM sources. This studyprovides an interesting insight into the importance of the intense hydrological events on the export ofthe terrestrial OM and further on the potential modification of the existing carbon mass balance alongthe continuum land-river-ocean. |