Abstract
Dissolved N species, TOC and total N (TN) in sediment cores (SC) collected from an eutrophic estuary were analyzed to understand the N geochemical variation in SC of the eutrophic estuary. Extremely higher concentrations of ammonium (6550 μM) and DON (2050 μM) were observed in pore water of the upper estuary and both concentrations generally accounted for 65–99 % and 1–34 % of the dissolved total N pool, respectively, in the three sediment pore waters. The DON and TN concentrations decreased with increasing depth in SC of the upper estuary, opposite the ammonium profile, suggesting that the mineralization of DON and TN provided the ammonium source to the SC. While, the TN mineralization was more profound than the DON mineralization in SC of the middle and lower estuary. The mineralization rate of DON and TN obviously differed from the different depth intervals of the three SC.
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