TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization of dissolved organic matter from a restored urban marsh and its role in the mobilization of trace metals
AU - ElBishlawi, Hagar
AU - Jaffe, Peter R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and the Gates Millennium Scholars Fellowship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - Dissolved organic matter (DOM), although highly variable and not very well characterized, plays a role in many important environmental reaction and transport processes, including trace metal mobilization. This study characterizes heterogeneous DOM from the pore-water of a restored urban tidal marsh, using chemical, optical, and electrochemical methods for dissolved organic carbon/nitrogen ratios (C:N: 1.8-6.4), spectroscopic characteristics (decreased aromaticity in amended sediments), element ratios (maximum sediment-associated trace metal concentrations measured. <30. cm), and metal complexation properties (log. Kc: Cd: 10.7. ±. 0.7. >. Pb: 9.5. ±. 0.1. >. Cr: 7.3. ±. 0.1. >. Cu: 5.07. ±. 0.53), all as a function of sediment depth. Specific DOM properties from the restored marsh were then compared to pore-water samples from a natural marsh and a simulated wetland microcosm which resulted in similar values, while the reference humic acid significantly differed in properties from field DOM. The results revealed that reference humic acids do not accurately represent the complexity of natural heterogeneous DOM, whereas a simulated wetland microcosm may provide a reasonable representation of natural DOM.Clear differences between amended and original soil (transition below 30. cm) were observed in DOM and trace metal properties including: lower DOM content, higher log. Kc values, less DOM complexity, development of a iron-sulfide redox buffering pool, and greater affinity for metals in the solid phase occurring in the amended sediments.
AB - Dissolved organic matter (DOM), although highly variable and not very well characterized, plays a role in many important environmental reaction and transport processes, including trace metal mobilization. This study characterizes heterogeneous DOM from the pore-water of a restored urban tidal marsh, using chemical, optical, and electrochemical methods for dissolved organic carbon/nitrogen ratios (C:N: 1.8-6.4), spectroscopic characteristics (decreased aromaticity in amended sediments), element ratios (maximum sediment-associated trace metal concentrations measured. <30. cm), and metal complexation properties (log. Kc: Cd: 10.7. ±. 0.7. >. Pb: 9.5. ±. 0.1. >. Cr: 7.3. ±. 0.1. >. Cu: 5.07. ±. 0.53), all as a function of sediment depth. Specific DOM properties from the restored marsh were then compared to pore-water samples from a natural marsh and a simulated wetland microcosm which resulted in similar values, while the reference humic acid significantly differed in properties from field DOM. The results revealed that reference humic acids do not accurately represent the complexity of natural heterogeneous DOM, whereas a simulated wetland microcosm may provide a reasonable representation of natural DOM.Clear differences between amended and original soil (transition below 30. cm) were observed in DOM and trace metal properties including: lower DOM content, higher log. Kc values, less DOM complexity, development of a iron-sulfide redox buffering pool, and greater affinity for metals in the solid phase occurring in the amended sediments.
KW - Constructed marsh
KW - DOM
KW - Restored marsh
KW - Trace metals
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.12.080
DO - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.12.080
M3 - Article
C2 - 25681788
AN - SCOPUS:84924777894
SN - 0045-6535
VL - 127
SP - 144
EP - 151
JO - Chemosphere
JF - Chemosphere
ER -