Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River

Sedimentation processes are important to the dynamics of lowland fluvial systems and depend on the characteristics of floods and of riparian ecosystems. The few known studies for the Paraná River system analyzed only summer floods without considering the context in which the sedimentation occurred....

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Main Authors: Marchetti, Zuleica Yael, Massa, Ernesto Segundo, Brumnich, Federico
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/6139
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.2153
https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2153
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author Marchetti, Zuleica Yael
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description Sedimentation processes are important to the dynamics of lowland fluvial systems and depend on the characteristics of floods and of riparian ecosystems. The few known studies for the Paraná River system analyzed only summer floods without considering the context in which the sedimentation occurred. This study focuses on sedimentation in three riparian forests during one summer and two winter floods of the Paraná River, quantifying the amount of deposited sediments, determining their texture, and measuring the associated quantities of Total Phosphorous (TP) and Total Nitrogen (TN). This study takes into account the elevations, floristic attributes, and geomorphologic context of the three forests, as well as water and sediment transport during floods. Differences in the floods’ water discharge, wash load, and duration determined differences in the total amounts of drained water and mobilized sediments. The amount of sediments ranged from 0 to 510 kg m‐2 in the different floods and riparian forests studied. The texture was statistically different between the two winter floods, and between some riparian forests. The analysis of nutrients showed that 1 to 4919 kg ha‐1 of TP and 4.2 to 1152 kg ha‐1 of TN were deposited during the three floods in all forest types. Our results show that the amounts from winter floods can be as important as those from summer floods. These results provide insight not only into the importance of winter floods in the deposition processes, but also into the role of both types of floods as natural instruments of fertilization for floodplain‐river ecosystems.
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spelling INTA61392022-08-03T13:07:48Z Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River Marchetti, Zuleica Yael Massa, Ernesto Segundo Brumnich, Federico Sedimentación Vegetación Nitrógeno Fósforo Bosques Crecida Sedimentation Vegetation Nitrogen Phosphorus Forests High Water Floods Río Paraná Sedimentation processes are important to the dynamics of lowland fluvial systems and depend on the characteristics of floods and of riparian ecosystems. The few known studies for the Paraná River system analyzed only summer floods without considering the context in which the sedimentation occurred. This study focuses on sedimentation in three riparian forests during one summer and two winter floods of the Paraná River, quantifying the amount of deposited sediments, determining their texture, and measuring the associated quantities of Total Phosphorous (TP) and Total Nitrogen (TN). This study takes into account the elevations, floristic attributes, and geomorphologic context of the three forests, as well as water and sediment transport during floods. Differences in the floods’ water discharge, wash load, and duration determined differences in the total amounts of drained water and mobilized sediments. The amount of sediments ranged from 0 to 510 kg m‐2 in the different floods and riparian forests studied. The texture was statistically different between the two winter floods, and between some riparian forests. The analysis of nutrients showed that 1 to 4919 kg ha‐1 of TP and 4.2 to 1152 kg ha‐1 of TN were deposited during the three floods in all forest types. Our results show that the amounts from winter floods can be as important as those from summer floods. These results provide insight not only into the importance of winter floods in the deposition processes, but also into the role of both types of floods as natural instruments of fertilization for floodplain‐river ecosystems. EEA Paraná Fil: Marchetti, Zuleica Yael. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe; Argentina Fil: Massa, Ernesto Segundo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas; Argentina. Fil: Brumnich, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe; Argentina 2019-10-18T11:17:29Z 2019-10-18T11:17:29Z 2019-10 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/6139 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.2153 1936-0584 1936-0592 https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2153 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Wiley Ecohydrology 13 (1) : 1-35 (January 2020)
spellingShingle Sedimentación
Vegetación
Nitrógeno
Fósforo
Bosques
Crecida
Sedimentation
Vegetation
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Forests
High Water
Floods
Río Paraná
Marchetti, Zuleica Yael
Massa, Ernesto Segundo
Brumnich, Federico
Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River
title Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River
title_full Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River
title_fullStr Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River
title_full_unstemmed Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River
title_short Sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the Middle Paraná River
title_sort sediment and nutrient deposition in different riparian forests and floods of the middle parana river
topic Sedimentación
Vegetación
Nitrógeno
Fósforo
Bosques
Crecida
Sedimentation
Vegetation
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Forests
High Water
Floods
Río Paraná
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/6139
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eco.2153
https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2153
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