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Interactive Effects of Salinity, Redox State, Soil Type, and Colloidal Size Fractionation on Greenhouse Gas Production in Coastal Wetland Soils
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  • Nicholas D Ward,
  • Madison Bowe,
  • Katherine A Muller,
  • Xingyuan Chen,
  • Qian Zhao,
  • Rosalie Chu,
  • Zezhen Cheng,
  • Thomas W. Wietsma,
  • Ravi K Kukkadapu
Nicholas D Ward
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Madison Bowe
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Katherine A Muller
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Xingyuan Chen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
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Qian Zhao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Rosalie Chu
PNNL
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Zezhen Cheng
PNNL
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Thomas W. Wietsma
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
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Ravi K Kukkadapu
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Abstract

This study examines how greenhouse gas (GHG) production and organic matter (OM) transformations in coastal wetland soils vary with the availability of oxygen and other terminal electron acceptors. We also evaluated how OM and redox-sensitive species varied across different size fractions: particulates (0.45-1μm), fine colloids (0.1-0.45μm), and nano particulates plus truly soluble (<0.1μm; NP+S) during 21-day aerobic and anaerobic slurry incubations. Soils were collected from the center of a freshwater coastal wetland (FW-C) in Lake Erie, the upland-wetland edge of the same wetland (FW-E), and the center of a saline coastal wetland (SW-C) in Washington state. Anaerobic methane production for FW-E soils were 47 and 27,537 times greater than FW-C and SW-C soils, respectively. High particulate Fe2+ and dissolved sulfate concentrations in FW-C and SW-C soils suggest that iron and/or sulfate reduction inhibited methanogenesis. Aerobic CO2 production was highest for both freshwater soils, which had a higher proportion of OM in the NP+S fraction (64±28% and 70±10% for FW-C and FW-E, respectively) and C:N ratios reflective of microbial detritus (1.7±0.2 and 1.4±0.3 for FW-E and FW-C, respectively) compared to SW-C, which had a higher fraction of particulate (58±9%) and fine colloidal (19±7%) OM and C:N ratios reflective of vegetation detritus (11.2 ± 0.5). The variability in GHG production and shifts in OM size fractionation and composition observed across freshwater and saline soils collected within individual and across different sites reinforce the high spatial variability in the processes controlling OM stability, mobility, and bioavailability in coastal wetland soils.
28 Nov 2023Submitted to ESS Open Archive
03 Dec 2023Published in ESS Open Archive