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  • Title: Identifying recent sources and fate of sedimentary nitrogen in the Baltic Sea based on organic matter elemental composition and nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes ratios.
    Author: Winogradow A, Pempkowiak J.
    Journal: Mar Pollut Bull; 2020 Nov; 160():111622. PubMed ID: 33181920.
    Abstract:
    Sedimentary nitrogen (SN) provenience and fate in surface and subsurface sediments collected from the Baltic Sea were assessed. SN and sedimentary organic carbon (SOC) concentrations, stable isotopic signatures (δ15NSN and δ13CSOC) and SOC/SN molar ratios, were determined in subsequent layers of twenty-four sediment cores dated with 210Pb/137Cs and fifty-seven surface sediments. Sedimentation rates in the range 66-736 g/m2yr-1 (0.05-0.34 cm/year) were measured. Prolonged incubation of sediments in the laboratory led to a 17-37% decrease of SN in surface sediments, and no SN loss in sediments deposited before 1940. Decrease of δ15NSN on incubation (1‰ on average), and gradients of δ15NSN, between recent - surface (3.5‰) vs. 100 years old - subsurface (2.1‰) sediments were attributed to varying contributions of labile nitrogen to the SN pool. Annual deposition of SN to sediment surface and burial in subsurface sediments amounted, respectively, to 5 ± 2 g/m2 and 3.5 ± 1 g/m2.
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