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Quantitative model of Carbon and Nitrogen isotope composition to highlight sources of nutrient discharge in coastal area (Toulon Bay, NW Mediterranean Sea)

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Nutrient loadings from either point or non-point sources to the environments are related to the growing global population. Subsequent negative impacts of nutrient loading on the environments requires a better understanding of their biogeochemical cycling and better tools to track their sources. This study examines the C, N and P discharge and cycling in a Mediterranean coastal area from rivers to marine sediments and assesses the anthropogenic contributions. Carbon and N concentrations and isotope compositions in rivers particles, surface sediments, and sediment cores were investigated to build up a quantitative multiple-end-member mixing model for C and N isotopes. This model has allowed determining the contribution of four natural and one anthropogenic sources to the sediments and highlighted the anthropogenic fraction of P based on the relationship with anthropogenic δ15N. Although P is a monoisotopic element and P total concentration has been the sole index to study P loading, this study suggests an alternative approach to differentiate anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic (diagenetic) P and revealed point and non-point sources of P and the corresponding P loading. Also, the diagenetic P background has been established for the 50-cm sediment layer of the whole Bay.
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hal-01879413 , version 1 (29-09-2018)

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Duc Huy Dang, R. Douglas Evans, Gaël Durrieu, Amonda El Houssainy, Jean-Ulrich Mullot, et al.. Quantitative model of Carbon and Nitrogen isotope composition to highlight sources of nutrient discharge in coastal area (Toulon Bay, NW Mediterranean Sea). Chemosphere, 2018, 194, pp.543 - 552. ⟨10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.12.109⟩. ⟨hal-01879413⟩
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