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Response of sedimentation rate to environmental evolution in Da River Reservoir in Southwest China

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Lake sediment records the evolution process of the interaction between human and nature. It is important to master the lacustrine sedimentation rate for the ecological environment assessment of catchment. A 60-cm sediment core was collected in the Da River Reservoir during 2019 to analyze radionuclides (210Pb and 137Cs) massic activities, grain size, total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and metals (Mn, Cu, Al, and Pb) mass fractions to reconstruct the response of sedimentation rate to environmental evolution. The environmental changes in the small catchment were classified into the following three stages through cluster analysis (CA) for geochemical parameters in the sediment core: phase I (1881–1985), phase II (1987–1999), and phase III (2000–2018). The average depth sedimentation rates (ADSRs) of the three stages were 0.33, 0.90, and 1.50 cm/year, respectively. The sedimentation rates increased from the bottom to the surface layer, indicating that the exogenous inputs into the reservoir have been occurring. The sediment deposition in phase III was strongly disturbed by the environmental changes (such as warmer climate and intensified land use). Therefore, sedimentation rates showed a rapid increase. Both Pearson correlation analysis and redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that sedimentation rates were positively correlated with climatic factors, particle size, nutrients and metals mass fractions, elemental ratios, and socioeconomic parameters. Sedimentation rates show high sensitivity to anthropogenic activities and climatic change, which can be used to reconstruct the environmental evolution process at a small catchment scale.

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The authors are thankful to the School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu 210046, China. The authors are also thankful to Jiawen Zheng for his assistance in collecting samples for support.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Number 41703099]; the Major Research Plan of the Shandong Natural Science Foundation [Grant Number ZR2020ZD19]; and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China [Grant Number ZR2020MD108].

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    Wenxian Sun, Yongping Wang & Haowei Teng

  2. LongYou No.2 Senior High School, Quzhou, 324400, People’s Republic of China

    Zike Zhou

  3. Zibo Ecological Environment Quality Control Service Center, Zibo, 255049, People’s Republic of China

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  4. School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, 255049, People’s Republic of China

    Aiju Liu, Yanfei Ma & Xiaoyin Niu

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Software, data curation, and writing—original draft: [Wenxian Sun]. Methodology and software: [Zike Zhou]. Visualization and investigation: [Xianwei Yin]. Visualization and investigation: [Yongping Wang]. Visualization and investigation: [Haowei Teng]. Conceptualization: [Aiju Liu]. Supervision and funding acquisition: [Yanfei Ma]. Writing—reviewing and editing and funding acquisition: [Xiaoyin Niu].

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Sun, W., Zhou, Z., Yin, X. et al. Response of sedimentation rate to environmental evolution in Da River Reservoir in Southwest China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 76739–76751 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20801-1

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