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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.18.2019.tde-14052024-093139
Document
Author
Full name
Álvaro Gennari Cavallini
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Carlos, 2019
Supervisor
Committee
Cunha, Davi Gasparini Fernandes (President)
Bottino, Flávia
Taniwaki, Ricardo Hideo
Title in Portuguese
Mecanismos físicos e biológicos de retenção de nutrientes em riachos tropicais
Keywords in Portuguese
ambientes aquáticos
autodepuração
impactos antropogênicos
serviços ecossistêmicos
Abstract in Portuguese
Os seres humanos obtém dos ecossistemas naturais benefícios diretos e indiretos, conhecidos como serviços ecossitêmicos. A retenção de nutrientes por ambientes aquáticos é uma das principais funções ecossitêmicas dos corpos hídricos e ocorre por mecanismos físicos e biológicos de autodepuração. Muitos estudos sobre retenção de nutrientes em corpos hídricos foram desenvolvidos em ambientes de clima temperado. No entanto, ambientes de clima tropical ainda carecem de pesquisas dedicadas à avaliação das ações antropogênicas de vêm afetando esse processo. O objetivo principal dessa pesquisa foi estimar as taxas de retenção de nitrato, amônio e fosfato em cinco trechos de quatro riachos caracterizados por diferentes condições ambientais, com vistas a avaliar sua capacidade autodepurativa em relação aos nutrientes durante o período de fevereiro a setembro de 2017. Por meio do uso de metodologias recentes e pouco aplicadas em ambientes de clima tropical (TASCC - Trace Addition for Spiraling Curve Characterization), foram realizados pulsos de nutrientes para quantificar e modelar as métricas de retenção (distância, taxa e velocidade de retenção ambientais) e suas parcelas física e biológica. Com relação a essas métricas, foram encontradas diferenças espaciais significativas entre os riachos anaisados, mas não foram observadas diferenças temporais entre as coletas. Com relação ao fosfato, os riachos apresentaram distâncias de retenção entre 50-337 m, com taxas entre 8-191 µg m-² min-¹ e velocidades entre 0,4-12,4 mm min-¹. O nitrato apresentou distâncias entre 107-1653m, com taxas entre 163-3149 µg m-²min-¹ e velocidades entre 0,2-4,3 mm min-¹. Por último, com realção ao amônio, os riachos apresentaram distâncias de retenção entre 18-360 m, com taxas entre 1-281 µg m-² min-¹ e velocidade entre 0,5-38,1 mm min-¹. Todos os riachos tiveram maiores retenções atribuídas a processos físicos em detrimento dos biológicos. Concluiu-se que alguns dos riachos analisados, especialmente os mais preservados, desempenharam um papel relevante na retenção dos nutrientes, sendo caracterizados como estratégicos em relação a esse serviço ambiental.
Title in English
Physical and biological mechanisms of nutrient retention in tropical streams
Keywords in English
anthropogenic impacts
aquatic environments
ecosystem services
self-depuration
Abstract in English
Human beings derive direct and indirect benefits from natural ecosystems, known as ecosystem services. Nutrient retention by aquatic environments is one of the main ecosystem functions of water bodies and occurs through pgysical and biological mechanisms of self-depuraton. May studies on nutrient retention in water bodies have been developed in temperate aquatic systems. However, tropical climate environments still lack research dedicated to the evaluation of anthropogenic actions that have been affecting this process. The mais objective of this research was to estimate the retention rates of nitrate, ammonium and phosphate in five reaches for four streams characterized by different environmental conditions, in order to assess their self-depuration capacityin relation to nutrients during the period from February to September 2017. Through the use to recent and still not largely applied methodologies in tropical water bodies (TASCC - Trace Addition for Spiraling Curve Characterization), nutrient pulses were performed to quantify and model the retention metrics (retention length, rate and velocity) and their physical and biological parcels. With respect to these metrics, significant spatial differences were found among the analyzed streams, but no temporal differences were observed across the sampling periods. Regarding phosphate, the streams presented retention uptake lenghts between 50-337 m, with rates between 8-191 µg m-² min-¹ and velocities between 0.4-12.4 mm min-¹. Nitrate had lenghts between 107-1653 m, with rates between 163-3149 µg m-² min-¹ and velocities between 0.2-4.3 mm min-¹. Finally, in relation to ammonium, the streams presented retention lenghts between 18-360 m, with rates between 1-281 µg m-² min-¹ and velocities between 0.5-38.1 mm min-¹. All streams had higher retentions attributed to physical process in comparison to biological processes. It was concluded that some of the streams analyzed, especially the most preserved, play a relevanmt role in nutrient retention, being characterized as strategic in relation to this environmental service.
 
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