闽江感潮河段非雨季、雨季不同形态氮的时空分布及影响因素

(1.福建师范大学环境科学与工程学院,福建 福州 350007; 2.福建省水产研究所,福建 厦门 361000; 3.福州市环境科学研究院,福建 福州 350013; 4.福建师范大学福建省污染控制与资源循环利用重点实验室,数字福建环境监测物联网实验室,福建 福州 350007)

; 时空分布; 闽江; 雨季; 非雨季

Spatiotemporal distribution and influencing factors of different forms of nitrogen during non-monsoon and monsoon seasons in the Minjiang River tidal reach
ZHU Yuchen1,2,WU Xianzhong3,LIU Jinjie1,LI Jiabing1,4,XIE Rongrong1,4*

(1.College of Environmental Science and Engineering,Fujian Normal University,Fuzhou 350007,China; 2.Fisheries Research Institute of Fujian,Xiamen 361000,China; 3.Fuzhou Research Academy of Environmental Sciences,Fuzhou 350013,China; 4.Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Recycling of Fujian Province,Digital Fujian Internet-of-things Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring,Fuzhou,China)

nitrogen; spatiotemporal distribution; Minjiang River; monsoon season; non-monsoon season

DOI: 10.6043/j.issn.0438-0479.202105034

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选取非雨季(2018年11月)和雨季(2019年4月)对闽江感潮河段7个断面进行水样采集,研究不同季不同形态氮的时空分布规律,采用相关性分析及主成分分析并结合2016—2019年来水情况,深入探讨不同季氮组分分布及转化的影响因素.结果表明:1)非雨季盐水入侵明显,各理化指标盐度、温度、pH和溶解氧的波动均强于雨季.2)非雨季上游NH4+-N低于雨季,下游则高于雨季,而非雨季NO3--N和总氮(TN)总体均高于雨季.从上游到下游,非雨季NH4+-N变化波动较大,NO3--N平缓而TN呈轻微上升; 雨季NH4+-N、NO3--N和TN变化均较平缓.3)相关性分析表明非雨季的氮转化活跃.雨季NH4+-N浓度是影响TN浓度的主要因素.结合主成分分析及长期上游来水氮的污染负荷发现,人为排放和各形态氮的相互转化是非雨季不同形态氮变化的主要因素,雨季水体反硝化对不同形态氮的分布发挥重要作用,而上游来水的氮污染负荷对不同形态氮的浓度影响较小.

Objective s: Elevated nitrogen (N) concentrations in estuarine ecosystems have led to significant eutrophication. The coastal environments are under great threats due to the N input from the upstream. The study of aquatic N speciation and transformation processes in different seasons could provide important scientific support to management efforts aimed at the N reduction in estuarine areas. Methods : Two field surveys in the Minjiang River tidal reach were conducted to investigate the spatiotemporal distributions of different species of nitrogen during a non-monsoon season (November, 2018) and a monsoon season (April, 2019), respectively with a total of 7 cross-sections. Then, the influencing factors of nitrogen distribution in different seasons were explored using Pearson’s correlation analysis, principal component analysis and historical water data of the upstream environment from 2016 to 2019. Results : The salinity, temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) were 0.04-6.27, 19.9-21.9 ℃, 6.90-7.90 and 5.96-10.70 mg/L, respectively in the non-monsoon season and 0.02-0.64, 19.8-21.9 ℃, 6.98-7.20 and 6.01-7.80 mg/L, respectively in the monsoon season. The results showed that salinity intrusion was stronger in the non-monsoon season than in the monsoon season, which caused salinity, temperature, pH and DO to fluctuate more significantly in the non-monsoon season. As for different nitrogen species, the NH4+-N concentration in the non-monsoon season and monsoon seasons were 0.11-0.78 mg/L and 0.16-0.45 mg/L, respectively, while the NO3--N were 1.23-2.11 mg/L and 0.93-1.15 mg/L, and the total nitrogen (TN) were 1.74-3.37 mg/L and 1.50-2.37 mg/L, respectively. The upstream (i.e. stations S1-S3) NH4+-N concentration in the non-monsoon season was lower than in the monsoon season, while an opposite trend was present in the downstream (i.e. stations S4-S7). However, the NH3--N and total nitrogen (TN) concentrations in the whole river reach in the non-monsoon season were higher than in the monsoon season. From the upstream to the downstream, the NH4+-N concentration fluctuated significantly, the NO3--N concentration kept the same level, and TN increased slightly in the non-monsoon season. In the monsoon season, the concentrations of all nitrogen species (NH4+-N, NO3--N and TN) changed slightly. Finally, the correlation analysis suggested that the nitrogen transformation was active in the non-monsoon season. In the monsoon season, the NH4+-N concentration was the key factor controlling the fluctuation of the TN concentration. Combined with the principal component analysis and upstream inflow nitrogen pollution load, anthropogenic discharge and the nitrogen cycle in different nitrogen species were the main factors of nitrogen species distribution in the non-monsoon season, while in the monsoon season denitrification process played an important role in controlling the distribution of different nitrogen species. The upstream inflow nitrogen pollution load had little influence on the concentration of different nitrogen species. Conclusion s: Our field investigations showed that the non-monsoon season and monsoon season had a profound impact on aquatic N speciation and transformation processes in different reaches of the tidal river water. The saline water would intrude upstream during the non-monsoon, which led to a larger variation in the physicochemical indexes in the research area. Besides, the low temperature water from the upstream reservoir was the main influencing factor for the N changes during the monsoon season. Our results demonstrated the spatiotemporal distribution and influencing factors of different forms of nitrogen during the non-monsoon and monsoon seasons in the Minjiang River tidal reach. Compared with other estuarine ecosystems, nitrification process dominated the transformation of different forms of N during the monsoon season, which provided an important theoretical benchmark in the water environment protection and improvement under different hydrodynamic conditions and technical support to explore N cycling in the tidal river reach.