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| Heip, C.H.R.; Goosen, N.K.; Herman, P.M.J.; Kromkamp, J.; Middelburg, J.J.; Soetaert, K.. |
| The question is reviewed whether a balance exists between production and consumption of biological particles in temperate tidal estuaries and what the relationships are between the magnitude of production and consumption processes and system carbon metabolism. The production terms considered are primary production by phytoplankton, microphytobenthos, macroalgae and vascular plants and the chemoautotrophic production, mainly by nitrifying bacteria. The consumption terms are generalized by considering pelagic and benthic mineralization, but major consumer compartments, heterotrophic bacteria, zooplankton, meiobenthos, and macrobenthos are considered in detail. The proposition that estuaries are heterotrophic systems, and become more so when nutrient inputs... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=8311 |
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| Soetaert, K.; Herman, P.M.J.; Middelburg, J.J.; Heip, C.H.R.; deStigter, H.S.; van Weering, T.C.E.; Epping, E.; Helder, W.. |
| The influence of sediment mixing on activity versus depth profiles of the radionuclide <sup>210</sup>Pb in the upper 20 cm of the sediments has been investigated along a depth transect (208 m-4500 m, 17 stations) in the OMEX study area (Goban Spur, NE Atlantic Ocean). A hierarchical family of bioturbation/nonlocal exchange models was derived. Each member of the hierarchy includes all processes of the previous model, and adds a one- or two-parameter process. The significance of the additional parameters is tested using a one-tailed <i>F</i>-test. It was found that (1) in five cases there is a significant improvement when direct injection of part of the flux into deeper sediment layers (nonlocal exchange) is added to the diffusive... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Chemical kinetics Continental margins Diffusion Lead 210 Modelling Sediment mixing ANE; Goban Spur. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=8450 |
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| Soetaert, K.; Herman, P.M.J.; Middelburg, J.J.. |
| We present a numerical model of sedimentary early diagenetic processes that includes oxic and anoxic mineralization. The model belongs to the new wave of early diagenesis models that account for depth-dependent bioturbation and porosity profiles; it can be used both for calculating steady-state conditions and transient simulation. It was developed to reproduce the cycling of carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen along the ocean margin; it resolves the sediment-depth profiles of carbon, oxygen, nitrate, ammonium, and other reduced substances. Organic carbon is modeled as two degradable fractions with different first-order degradation rates and nitrogen:carbon ratios, to account for the decreasing reactivity and N/C ratio of the organic matter with depth into the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=8408 |
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| Middelburg, J.J.; Soetaert, K.; Herman, P.M.J.; Heip, C.H.R.. |
| The rate and factors controlling denitrification in marine sediments have been investigated using a prognostic diagenetic model. The model is forced with observed carbon fluxes. bioturbation and sedimentation rates, and bottom water conditions. It can reproduce rates of aerobic mineralization, denitrification, and fluxes of oxygen, nitrate, and ammonium. The globally integrated rate of denitrification is estimated by this model to be about 230-285 Tg N yr<sup>-1</sup>, with about 100 Tg N yr<sup>-1</sup> occurring in shelf sediments. This estimate is significantly higher than literature estimates (12-89 Tg N yr<sup>-1</sup>), mainly because of a proposed upward revision of denitrification rates in slope and deep-sea... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=8415 |
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| Soetaert, K.; Herman, P.M.J.; Middelburg, J.J.; Heip, C.H.R.. |
| We test whether organic matter degradability, mixing activity, and total sediment mineralization can be estimated by inversion of a coupled nonlinear numerical steady-state diagenetic model. We use a single data set comprising oxygen, nitrate, ammonium and organic carbon versus depth profiles from a slope station in the Goban Spur area (1034 m, Northeast Atlantic). Based on an extensive sensitivity analysis, it appears that (1) when using all data, the total mineralization rates can be determined with reasonable precision; bioturbation and degradability are less well constrained and (2) total mineralization rates can be determined based on nitrate and oxygen profiles only; estimates of organic matter mixing rates and degradability are refined when... |
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| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=8426 |
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| Soetaert, K.; Herman, P.M.J.; Middelburg, J.J.. |
| We present a dynamic, numerical model of early diagenetic processes that can be used to examine the response of different organic carbon mineralization pathways, concentration vs. depth profiles, and the resultant fluxes to seasonally varying carbon deposition. We show that there can be substantial temporal variability in sediment-water fluxes as well as in the relative contribution of different organic carbon mineralization pathways and oxygen consumption processes in deep-sea sediments. The timing and amplitude of the sediment response are most sensitive to the reactivity of the organic matter. We show that the fluxes of dissolved substances can be approximated by assuming that these constituents are at steady state with the carbon profiles. The model is... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=8444 |
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| Middelburg, J.J.; Barranguet, C.; Boschker, H.T.S.; Herman, P.M.J.; Moens, T.; Heip, C.H.R.. |
| At two intertidal sites (one sandy and one silty, in the Scheldt estuary, The Netherlands), the fate of microphytobenthos was studied through an in situ <sup>13</sup>C pulse- chase experiment. Label was added at the beginning of low tide, and uptake of <sup>13</sup>C by algae was linear during the whole period of tidal exposure (about 27 mg m<sup>-2</sup> h<sup>-1</sup> in the top millimeter at both sites). The <sup>13</sup>C fixed by microphytobenthos was rapidly displaced toward deeper sediment layers (down to 6 cm), in particular at the dynamic, sandy site. The residence times of microphytobenthos with respect to external losses (resuspension and respiration) were about 2.4 and 5.6 d at the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: ANE; Netherlands; Westerschelde; Molenplaat. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/54615.pdf |
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