The Application of a Box Model to Investigate the Behavior of Dissolved Inorganic Nutrients in the Inner Gulf of Thailand
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The researchers have investigated the behavior dissolved inorganic nutrients in the inner Gulf of Thailand in August, September, November and December in 2014 and February, April and June in 2015 by using a box model analysis developed by the Land-Ocean interactions in the Coastal Zone project (LOICZ). Results showed that the residence times was long in wet season and short in dry season, with the longest in September 2014 (28 days) and the shortest in February 2015 (6 days). ∆DIN and ∆DIP referred as the removal or the entering of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and dissolved inorganic phosphorus in the box system have yearly average values of -1.53 mmol/m2/day and +0.09 mmol/m2/day, respectively. The removal of dissolved inorganic nitrogen from the water column may be related to photosynthesis by phytoplankton, and the entering of dissolved inorganic phosphorus in the water column is possibly connected to the decomposition of organic material by bacteria and sediment resuspension. The annual averages of net ecosystem metabolism (p-r) and net nitrogen production (nfix-denit) were –161.65 mmol/m2/day and -311.63 mmol/m2/day, respectively. These results suggest that the ecosystem in this area be heterotrophic since the decomposition is larger than the photosynthesis, and denitrification overcomes nitrogen fixation.
Keywords: nutrient budgets, residence time, inner Gulf of Thailand
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