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Trace elements influenced by environmental changes in Lake Biwa: (I) Seasonal variations under suboxic hypolimnion conditions during 2007 and 2009

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Dissolved oxygen (DO) in the Lake Biwa hypolimnion reached its lowest level of <1 mg kg−1 in 2007. In this paper, we report the variations in the total dissolvable (TD), dissolved (D), and labile particulate (LP) fractions of Al, Si, P, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Mo, W, and U in Lake Biwa 2007 and 2009. Al and Fe species were predominantly in the form of LP-Al and LP-Fe and were strongly correlated with one another (r = 0.99), suggesting that the weathering of aluminous minerals and the supply of clay mineral particles are the main factors that influence the distributions of Al and Fe. Although D-Al increased in the summer epilimnion, D-Fe was relatively low, probably as a result of uptake by plants. Reductive release of Fe from the bottom was not seen. Mn was also dominated by LP-Mn, but this fraction showed a different distribution to those of LP-Al and LP-Fe. The D-Mn and LP-Mn concentrations varied by factors of 700–1000 and showed marked increases in the bottom water during stratification in 2007. We believe that Mn2+ was released from the sediments and oxidized by DO in the bottom water. Ni, Cu, Zn, and Cr, which exist as cationic species, had LP/TD ratios of 0.1–0.7 and relatively uniform distributions. Si, P, V, As, Mo, W, and U, which form oxoacid species, had LP/TD ratios of 0–0.8. Si, P, and As were characterized by nutrient-like profiles, V, W, and U showed summer maxima in the epilimnion, and Mo had a uniform distribution. TD-Mo increased in the bottom water along with TD-Mn, while TD-V and TD-W showed significant decreases. These results are likely attributable to differences in the adsorption of these elements onto manganese oxides and iron hydroxides.

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This study was partly supported by a fund for the mobile site type research from the Institute of Sustainability Science, Kyoto University.

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    Yusuke Nakashima, Akiyoshi Shimizu & Yoshiki Sohrin

  2. School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture, 2500 Hassaka, Hikone, Shiga, Japan

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Nakashima, Y., Shimizu, A., Maruo, M. et al. Trace elements influenced by environmental changes in Lake Biwa: (I) Seasonal variations under suboxic hypolimnion conditions during 2007 and 2009. Limnology 17, 151–162 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10201-015-0474-3

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