During late summer, 1992, the water immediately overlying the sediment in the anoxic hypolimnion sf Crystal Lake, Conn., was saturated with ferrous sulfide (FeS). The average solubility product (pK,) at the bottom of the hypolimnion was 3.25, which is consistent with other lake and laboratory studies and is in the range of both amorphous FeS and mackinawite. The precipitation of iron sulfide removed k2+ and HS-from the water column, and acid volatile sulfide (AVS) accumulated In the top 6-8 cm sf the sediment. Pyrite was formed at deeper depths and did not increase during the study. The accumulation of AVS in the sediment was correlated with an increased accumulation of phosphorus in the water column. The rate of accanmulation of phosphorus in the hypolimnion was greatest when iron was lost to the sediment as AVS. The statistically significant link between iron storage in the sediment and phosphorus accumulation in the overlying water suggests that reoxidation of ferrous iron to ferric (hydr)oxides is decreased, and therefore precipitation of ferric phosphate is limited.
When forested riparian zones are cleared for agriculture or development, major changes can occur in the stream temperature regime and consequently in ecosystem structure and function. Our main objective was to compare the summer temperature regimes of streams with and without forest canopy cover at multiple sites. The secondary objective was to identify the components of the stream heat budget that had the greatest influence on the stream temperature regime. Paired stream reaches (one forested and one non-forested or 'open') were identified at 11 sites distributed across the USA and Canada. Stream temperature was monitored at the upstream and downstream ends of 80 to 130-m-long reaches during summer, and five variables were calculated to describe the stream temperature regime. Overall, compared with forested reaches, open reaches tended to have significantly higher daily mean (mean difference = 0.33 ± 1.1°C) and daily maximum (mean difference = 1.0 ± 1.7°C) temperatures and wider daily ranges (mean difference = 1.1 ± 1.7°C). Mean and maximum daily net heat fluxes in open reaches tended to be greater (or less negative) than those in forested reaches. However, certain sites showed the opposite trends in some variables because of the following: (i) Daily mean and maximum temperatures were biased by differences in inflow temperature between paired reaches and (ii) inputs of cold groundwater exerted a strong influence on temperature. Modelling and regression results suggested that within sites, differences in direct solar radiation were mainly responsible for the observed differences in stream temperature variables at the daily scale.
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