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Sedimentation rate and accumulation of nutrients in the Upper Paraná river floodplain

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The objective was to rebuild the history of sedimentation and accumulation of nutrients rate in the Upper Paraná River floodplain. Two corers were collected and sliced at intervals of 2 cm. In the sub-samples geochronological analysis was performed by means of the isotope 210Pb, and also the quantification of organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. Garças Pond presented sedimentation rate of 7.7 mm yr−1 and Patos Pond 6.8 mm yr−1. The flood pulse is the main regulating factor of the sedimentation rate on the Upper Paraná River floodplain. The total organic carbon derives from allochthonous origin and the limiting productivity nutrient in the system is nitrogen.

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  1. Program in Agricultural Engineering, State University of Western Paraná, Rua Universitária, 2069, Jardim Universitário, Cascavel, PR, CEP 85819-110, Brazil

    Marcelo Bevilacqua Remor, Marcio Antônio Vilas Boas, Silvio César Sampaio & Ralpho Rinaldo dos Reis

  2. Environmental Radiometry Laboratory, Nuclear Energy Research Institute, Av. Lineu Prestes, 2242, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, CEP 05508-000, Brazil

    Sandra Regina Damatto

  3. Federal University of Mato Grosso Do Sul, Av. Ranulpho Marques Leal, 3484, Três Lagoas, MS, CEP 79613-000, Brazil

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Remor, M.B., Vilas Boas, M.A., Sampaio, S.C. et al. Sedimentation rate and accumulation of nutrients in the Upper Paraná river floodplain. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 1019–1027 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-08153-5

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