Are benthic nutrient fluxes from intertidal mudflats driven by surface sediment characteristics?

Phytoplankton dynamics driven by vertical nutrient fluxes

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Measuring nutrient fluxes across the sediment-water interface using benthic chambers

This paper presents a simple model to determine the benthic fluxes of matter across the sediment-water Interface when a benth~c hamber is used. The model is based on accepting that the limiting step for the overall rate of transfer while the chamber is in position is the diffusion through the diffusive boundary layer (DBL) overlying the sediment, and it assumes that this rate is necessarily aff...

Carbon and nitrogen cycling on intertidal mudflats of a temperate Australian estuary. I. Benthic metabolism

The light and dark inundated fluxes of O2 and total CO2 (TCO2), as well as the concentrations of chlorophyll a and phaeopigments, were measured (ex situ) on the upper and lower portions of 2 intertidal mudflats—1 in the upper Huon Estuary (salinity 4 to 32) and 1 in a marine side-arm of the estuary (salinity 17 to 34)—over 4 seasons. Dark-exposed fluxes of O2 and CO2 were also measured on the u...

Modeling three-dimensional cohesive sediment transport and associated morphological variation in estuarine intertidal mudflats

Structures of benthic prokaryotic communities and their hydrolytic enzyme activities resuspended from samples of intertidal mudflats: An experimental approach

21 Resuspended sediment can increase plankton biomass and the growth of bacteria, thus 22 influence the coastal planktonic microbial food web. But little is known about resuspension 23 itself: is it a single massive change or a whole series of events and how does it affect the 24 quantity and quality of resuspended prokaryotic cells? We simulated the sequential erosion of 25 mud cores to better...