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Titel (primär) Vertical gradients of nutrients in the hyporheic zone of the River Lahn (Germany): relevance of surface versus hyporheic conversion processes
Titel (sekundär) The ecology of the hyporheic zone of running waters. Patterns, processes and bottleneck functions
Autor Fischer, J.; Borchardt, D.; Ingendahl, D.; Ibisch, R.B.; Sänger, N.; Wawra, B.; Lenk, M.
Herausgeber Borchardt, D.; Pusch, M.
Quelle Advances in Limnology
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
Department ASAM
Band/Volume 61
Seite von 105
Seite bis 118
Sprache englisch
UFZ Bestand Magdeburg, Bibliothek, 00377539, 10-2484 MA : Z
Magdeburg, Bibliothek, 00401333, 11-0307 MA : Z
Abstract Hyporheic and surface-bound nutrient retention (NH4-N, NO3-N, TP) was investigated at a riffle-pool sequence of a nutrient-enriched and wastewater-affected 5th order gravel stream in Germany (River Lahn). A comparative analysis of injected fluoresceine as a conservative tracer and reactive solutes resulting from a wastewater effluent were used to separate hydraulic exchange phenomena from biogeochemical transformations in four sediment depths (0-5, 5-15, 15-25 and 25-45 cm). Exchange corrected vertical gradients of the surface water in two infiltration zones showed that 65 % of the ammonium concentration and 20 % of the total phosphorus concentration were removed at the sediment-water interface (sediment depth 0-5 cm), whereas only a slight and insignificant nitrate surplus occurred at the same depth. It became evident that biological uptake respectively coupled nitrification and denitrification within the well-developed periphyton of the River Lahn exceeded hyporheic nitrification. The most active layer of the hyporheic zone was between 5-15 cm, which is a depth characterized by intensive small-scale exchange processes (e.g. an additional reduction of ammonium (20%) and TP (4.5 %)). Net retention of both parameters decreased to almost 0 % in layers deeper than 25 cm. Nitrate showed no significant retention at all. We conclude that the River Lahn has a large but inactive potential for hyporheic nutrient removal which is superimposed by periphyton nutrient cycling.
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Fischer, J., Borchardt, D., Ingendahl, D., Ibisch, R.B., Sänger, N., Wawra, B., Lenk, M. (2009):
Vertical gradients of nutrients in the hyporheic zone of the River Lahn (Germany): relevance of surface versus hyporheic conversion processes
In: Borchardt, D., Pusch, M. (eds.)
The ecology of the hyporheic zone of running waters. Patterns, processes and bottleneck functions
Advanc. Limnol. 61
Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, p. 105 - 118