Sources and implications of particulate organic matter from a small tropical river—Zuari River, India

• Published in: Acta oceanologica Sinica Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 18 - 32
• Main Authors: Fernandes, Dearlyn, Wu, Ying, Shirodkar, Prabhaker Vasant, Pradhan, Umesh Kumar, Zhang, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing The Chinese Society of Oceanography 01.04.2020; Springer Nature B.V; State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China%National Institute of Oceanography (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Dona Paula, Goa 403004, India%National Institute of Oceanography (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Regional Centre, 4 Bungalows, Andheri (West) 400053, Mumbai, India
• Subjects: Alanine; Amino acids; Anthropogenic factors; Aquatic ecosystems; Aspartic acid; Bacteria; Biogeochemical cycle; Biogeochemical cycles; Biogeochemistry; Biomarkers; Brackishwater environment; Carbon 13; Chlorophyll; Chlorophyll a; Climatology; Coastal waters; Detritus; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Ecology; Ecosystems; Enantiomers; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Environmental Chemistry; Estuaries; Estuarine dynamics; Estuarine ecosystems; Glutamic acid; Heterotrophic bacteria; Human influences; Leucine; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Monsoons; Oceanography; Organic carbon; Organic matter; Parameters; Particulate matter; Particulate organic carbon; Particulate organic matter; Plankton; Principal components analysis; Rivers; Seasons; Serine; Spatial variability; Spatial variations; Suspended particulate matter; Temporal variability; Temporal variations; Turbidity; Tyrosine; Variability; Wind; India; suspended particulate matter (SPM); degradation index (DI); Zuari River; estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM); organic matter (OM); amino acids (AA); organic matter(OM)

Transitional ecosystems, estuaries and the coastal seas, are distinctively affected by natural and anthropogenic factors. Organic matter (OM) originating from terrestrial sources is exported by rivers and forms a key component of the global biogeochemical cycles. Most previous studies focused on the...