Environmental drivers of spatial and temporal water quality variability in four coastal wetlands of Lake Ontario

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Harrow-Lyle, Tyler J.
Chomicki, Krista M.
Kirkwood, Andrea E.
dc.date.accepted
2023-03-29
dc.date.accessioned
2024-10-30T13:11:54Z
dc.date.available
2024-10-30T13:11:54Z
dc.date.issued
2023-05-18
dc.date.submitted
2022-12-12
dc.description.abstract - en
Great Lakes coastal wetlands serve as mediation zones between the land and the lake, regulating the fate of materials received from tributaries prior to discharge to the lake nearshore zone. To improve our understanding of water quality processing and nutrient fate in coastal wetlands, we evaluated within- and across-wetland water quality as a function of environmental drivers over a decade (2009-2018) in three drowned river mouth (Carruthers, Duffin’s, and Rouge) and one barrier lagoon (Frenchman’s Bay) wetlands on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Overall, land-use had a weak relative association with most water quality parameters, reflecting no appreciable changes in land-use across the study years. The barrier lagoon wetland Frenchman’s Bay had a distinctly different water quality pattern from the drowned river mouth wetlands, where water quality followed a high to low concentration gradient from near the tributary confluences (high) to the lake-wetland confluence (low) (permutational analysis of variance p-value < 0.001). Notably, we observed significant differences among celled (i.e., natural ponds in wetlands) and non-celled sites in Duffin’s and Rouge marshes, primarily attributed to strong covariation among phosphorus, phosphate, and organic nitrogen concentrations (permutational analysis of variance p-value < 0.001). This water-quality signature seemed to be driven by solar radiation and lake level variability (i.e., seiche inundation), inferring that wetlands may be important sites for the mobilization of legacy phosphorus in sediments under certain climatic conditions, and following seiche events.
dc.identifier.issn
2773-0719
0380-1330
dc.identifier.uri
https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/3089
dc.language.iso
en
dc.publisher
Elsevier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2023.03.013
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Green
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Vert
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights.uri - fr
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.fr
dc.subject - en
Science and Technology
Nature and environment
dc.subject - fr
Sciences et technologie
Nature et environnement
dc.subject.en - en
Science and Technology
Nature and environment
dc.subject.fr - fr
Sciences et technologie
Nature et environnement
dc.title - en
Environmental drivers of spatial and temporal water quality variability in four coastal wetlands of Lake Ontario
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Accepted manuscript
dc.type - fr
Manuscrit accepté
local.article.journalissue
3
local.article.journaltitle
Journal of Great Lakes Research
local.article.journalvolume
49
local.pagination
27 pages
local.peerreview - en
Yes
local.peerreview - fr
Oui
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