| Literature DB >> 22547978 |
Lanlan Guo1, Yi Chen, Zhao Zhang, Takehiko Fukushima.
Abstract
Nitrogen and phosphorus are considered the most important limiting elements in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. however, very few studies have focused on which is from forested streams, a bridge between these two systems. To fill this gap, we examined the concentrations of dissolved N and P in storm waters from forested watersheds of five regions in Japan, to characterize nutrient limitation and its potential controlling factors. First, dissolved N and P concentrations and the N : P ratio on forested streams were higher during storm events relative to baseflow conditions. Second, significantly higher dissolved inorganic N concentrations were found in storm waters from evergreen coniferous forest streams than those from deciduous broadleaf forest streams in Aichi, Kochi, Mie, Nagano, and with the exception of Tokyo. Finally, almost all the N : P ratios in the storm water were generally higher than 34, implying that the storm water should be P-limited, especially for Tokyo.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22547978 PMCID: PMC3322624 DOI: 10.1100/2012/257392
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ScientificWorldJournal ISSN: 1537-744X
Summary of forested runoff nutrient concentrations (μmol L−1) and the molar N : P ratio in storm and baseflow states for the complete dataset (all sites).
| Condition | Value | DTP | DTN | DIP | DIN | DOP | DON | N : P Ratio |
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| Storm | Min | 0.02 | 1.36 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.02 | 0.43 | 7 |
| Max | 2.29 | 226.36 | 2.26 | 210.72 | 1.45 | 416 | 2567 | |
| Mean | 0.33 | 51.62 | 0.12 | 45.95 | 0.21 | 17.23 | 236 | |
| SD | 0.34 | 56.32 | 0.21 | 55.91 | 0.21 | 32.53 | 279 | |
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| Baseflow* | Min | 0.03 | 0.75 | 0.02 | 0.60 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 7 |
| Max | 1.23 | 112 | 1.03 | 106 | 0.41 | 14.1 | 1858 | |
| Mean | 0.16 | 24.6 | 0.13 | 21.5 | 0.09 | 3.59 | 165 | |
| SD | 0.21 | 25.2 | 0.17 | 23.6 | 0.07 | 2.52 | 198 | |
N : P ratios are defined as DTN : DTP molar ratios; molar N: P ≈ 0.45 N : P (by mass); *data from Zhang et al. [2].
Relationships between the different forms of N and P.
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| DTP | DTN | DIP | DIN | DOP | DON |
| DTP | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | |
| DTN | 0.466** | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | |
| DIP | 0.798** | 0.374** | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | |
| DIN | 0.427** | 0.992** | 0.360** | 0.062 | <0.001 | |
| DOP | 0.804** | 0.371** | 0.284** | 0.321** | <0.001 | |
| DON | 0.136** | 0.151** | 0.135** | 0.190** | 0.081 | |
**Correlation is significant at the P < 0.01 level.
Means for nutrient concentrations (μmol L−1) and the molar N : P ratio at the 20 sites across the five study regions in Japan (standard deviations are in parentheses).
| Site | Number of samples | DTP | DTN | DIP | DIN | DOP | DON | N : P ratio |
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| EC-A3 | 19 | 0.07 (0.06) | 31.73 (4.71) | 0.02 (0.01) | 21.38 (7.56) | 0.06 (0.05) | 10.35 (10.11) | 638 (296.37) |
| DB-A4 | 53 | 0.06 (0.04) | 11.95 (3.92) | 0.02 (0.01) | 6.16 (3.57) | 0.04 (0.03) | 5.79 (1.44) | 241 (129.75) |
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| DB-K2 | 24 | 0.48 (0.29) | 14.86 (3.22) | 0.14 (0.16) | 12.75 (2.77) | 0.34 (0.14) | 2.11 (0.94) | 40 (23.19) |
| DB-K3 | 64 | 0.30 (0.16) | 20.90 (14.27) | 0.09 (0.12) | 17.24 (12.48) | 0.22 (0.12) | 3.66 (2.88) | 79 (47.65) |
| EC-K4 | 4 | 0.06 (0.03) | 1.74 (0.27) | 0.20 (0.00) | 0.26 (0.16) | 0.04 (0.23) | 1.47 (0.30) | 40 (23.36) |
| EC-K5 | 5 | 0.41 (0.16) | 37.67 (2.86) | 0.04 (0.05) | 34.58 (2.53) | 0.37 (0.18) | 3.09 (0.79) | 107 (48.05) |
| EC-K6 | 21 | 0.42 (0.11) | 18.94 (1.65) | 0.05 (0.05) | 16.56 (1.51) | 0.37 (0.12) | 2.38 (0.69) | 49 (15.97) |
| EC-K7 | 19 | 0.35 (0.11) | 54.53 (15.14) | 0.16 (0.99) | 47.90 (11.98) | 0.19 (0.15) | 6.62 (5.04) | 169 (70.19) |
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| EC-M1 | 29 | 0.06 (0.08) | 15.17 (11.63) | 0.02 (0.00) | 12.01 (8.47) | 0.05 (0.08) | 53.97 (50.00) | 352 (221.19) |
| EC-M2 | 40 | 0.13 (0.10) | 13.87 (11.89) | 0.04 (0.02) | 10.01 (9.86) | 0.10 (0.10) | 53.77 (39.13) | 117 (76.00) |
| EC-M3 | 32 | 0.08 (0.09) | 16.92 (8.67) | 0.03 (0.04) | 13.18 (7.43) | 0.06 (0.08) | 52.36 (31.13) | 370 (248.20) |
| EC-M4 | 4 | 0.10 (0.08) | 20.56 (10.33) | 0.02 (0.00) | 9.31 (0.74) | 0.08 (0.07) | 157.4 (150.69) | 433 (471.02) |
| EC-M5 | 10 | 0.12 (0.13) | 37.93 (12.19) | 0.02 (0.00) | 34.46 (11.77) | 0.11 (0.13) | 48.70 (26.98) | 670 (493.82) |
| DB-M8 | 39 | 0.09 (0.09) | 9.46 (4.75) | 0.03 (0.18) | 5.44 (2.69) | 0.07 (0.08) | 4.01 (3.61) | 182 (107.83) |
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| EC-N2 | 24 | 0.56 (0.50) | 68.36 (6.18) | 0.14 (0.46) | 61.91 (8.01) | 0.42 (0.31) | 6.45 (4.79) | 190 (112.23) |
| EC-N4 | 9 | 1.01 (0.22) | 53.34 (14.74) | 0.24 (0.07) | 5.05 (2.86) | 0.78 (0.17) | 48.29 (12.11) | 52.67 (7.04) |
| EC-N5 | 20 | 0.61 (0.24) | 56.75 (13.60) | 0.34 (0.06) | 50.20 (13.68) | 0.27 (0.25) | 6.55 (2.13) | 100 (32.62) |
| DB-N6 | 15 | 1.20 (0.29) | 11.50 (4.32) | 0.87 (0.20) | 0.77 (0.83) | 0.33 (0.10) | 10.73 (3.66) | 9 (2.67) |
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| EC-T5 | 57 | 0.51 (0.33) | 133.92 (28.21) | 0.30 (0.32) | 126.93 (30.28) | 0.22 (0.16) | 6.98 (4.83) | 483 (464.92) |
| DB-T6 | 60 | 0.70 (0.46) | 161.54 (31.80) | 0.29 (0.27) | 156.38 (32.97) | 0.41 (0.25) | 5.16 (5.38) | 390 (297.56) |
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Figure 1Forested stream nutrient concentrations for the different vegetation types in the five regions during storm events. The symbol on the top of columns shows a significant difference at either ***P ≤ 0.001, **0.001 ≤ P ≤ 0.01, or *0.01 ≤ P ≤ 0.05.
Figure 2Relationships between the runoff concentrations of DTN and DTP in the EC and DB forests during storm events in each region.