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A Study on the Effect of the Development of Anaerobic Respiration Processes in the Sediment with the Water-column Stratification and Hypoxia and Its Influence on Methane at Dangdong Bay in Jinhae, Korea

진해 당동만의 성층과 빈산소에 따른 퇴적물내 혐기층 발달이 메탄 거동에 미치는 영향 연구

  • Kim, Seoyoung (Department of Oceanography, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University) ;
  • An, Soonmo (Department of Oceanography, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University)
  • 김서영 (부산대학교 자연과학대학 해양학과) ;
  • 안순모 (부산대학교 자연과학대학 해양학과)
  • Received : 2022.01.24
  • Accepted : 2022.02.14
  • Published : 2022.03.30
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Abstract

Hypoxia can affect water-atmosphere methane flux by controlling the production and consumption processes of methane in coastal areas. Seasonal methane concentration and fluxes were quantified to evaluate the effects of seasonal hypoxia in Dangdong Bay (Gyeongsangnamdo, Jinhae Bay, South Korea). Sediment-water methane flux increased more than 300 times during hypoxia (normoxia and hypoxia each 6, 1900 µmol m-2 d-1), and water-atmospheric methane flux and bottom methane concentration increased about 2, 10 times (normoxia and hypoxia each 190, 420 µmol m-2 d-1; normoxia and hypoxia each 22, 230 nM). Shoaling of anaerobic decomposition of organic matter in the sediments during the hypoxia (August) was confirmed by the change of the depth at which the maximum hydrogen sulfide concentration was detected. Shoaling shortens the distance between the water column and methanogenesis section to facilitate the inflow of organic matter, which can lead to an increase in methane production. In addition, since the transport distance of the generated methane to the water column is shortened, consumption of methane will be reduced. The combination of increased production and reduced consumption could increase sediment-aqueous methane flux and dissolved methane, which is thought to result in an increase in water-atmospheric methane flux. We could not observe the emission of methane accumulated during the hypoxia due to stratification, so it is possible that the estimated methane flux to the atmosphere was underestimated. In this study, the increase in methane flux in the coastal area due to hypoxia was confirmed, and the necessity of future methane production studies according to oxygen conditions in various coastal areas was demonstratedshown in the future.

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