Stoichiometry of C, N, P, and Si Fluxes in a Temperate-Climate Embayment
Smith SV, Wiebe WJ, Hollibaugh JT, Dollar SJ, Hager SW, Cole BE, Tribble GW, Wheeler PA. 1987. Stoichiometry of C, N, P, and Si Fluxes in a Temperate-Climate Embayment. Journal of Marine Research. 45(2):427-460
Dissolved C, N, P, and Si budgets for Tomales Bay, California, have been used to solve simultaneous stoichiometric equations which describe a plausible material balance for net organic matter reactions in the bay. Dissolved Si and P were both exported hydrographically. Dissolved C and fixed N were imported hydrographically. If one assumes that C, N, P, ans Si were supplied to the bay as organic detritus and remineralized at a rate required to balance dissolved Si and P exports, one can calculate reasonable rates of denitrification and CO sub(2) gas evasion across the air-water interface. The system is thus interpreted to have been net heterotrophic at the time of the investigation.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Smith, S; Wiebe, W; Hollibaugh, J; Dollar, S; Hager, S; Cole, B; Tribble, G; Wheeler, P
- Units
- PORE
- Keywords
- biogeochemical cycle, California, chemical oceanography, denitrification, Dissolved Organic Carbon, dissolved organic nitrogen, dissolved organic phosphorus, Ecosystems, Energetics, INE, Organic Compounds, stoichiometry, Tomales Bay, USA