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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Relevance of peat-draining rivers for the riverine input of dissolved iron into the ocean
Science of the Total Environment, Volume 408, No. 11, Year 2010
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Peat bogs have the ability to produce strong chelate ligands (humic and fulvic acids) which enhance the weathering rates of iron-silicate minerals and greatly increase the solubility of the essential trace metal iron in river water. Fluvial networks link peat bogs with the ocean, and thus terrestrial-derived fulvic-iron complexes fuel the ocean's biological productivity and biological carbon pump, but understanding this role is constrained by inconsistent observations regarding the behaviour of riverine iron in the estuarine mixing zone, where precipitation reactions remove iron from the water column. We applied a characterization of the colloidal iron carriers in peatland-draining rivers in North Scotland, using field-flow fractionation (FFF), in combination with end-member mixing experiments of river water sampled near the river mouth and coastal seawater using a 59Fe radiotracer method. According to our results, the investigated river contributed "truly dissolved" Fe concentrations of about 3300nmolL-1 to the ocean which is nearly two orders of magnitude higher than the dissolved iron contribution of the "average world" river (~40nmolL-1). Thus we conclude that peatland-draining rivers are important sources of dissolved iron to the ocean margins. We propose highly electrostatic and sterical stabilized iron-organic matter complexes in the size range of <2kDa to be responsible for iron transport across the estuarine mixing zone. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Authors & Co-Authors
Krachler, Regina
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
Krachler, Rudolf F.
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
Jirsa, Franz
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
Hofmann, Thilo
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
Keppler, Bernhard K.
Austria, Vienna
Universität Wien
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Citations: 88
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 1
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Doi:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.018
ISSN:
00489697
Research Areas
Environmental