Biogeochemistry of intertidal sediments

Jickells, T. D., Rae, J. E. (Eds.). (1997). Biogeochemistry of Intertidal sediments. Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series, 9, Cambridge University Press, 193 pp. 

Jickells TD and Rae JE (eds.) (1997) Biogeochemistry of Intertidal Sediments. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. Jones KC and de Voogt P (1999) Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) State of the science. Environmental Pollution 100 209-211. 

Joye, S. B., and Paerl, H. W. (1993). Nitrogen fixation and denitrification in the intertidal and subtidal sediments of Tomales Bay, California. In Biogeochemistry of Global Change Radiative Trace Gases (Oremland, R. S. ed.). Chapman and HaU, New York, NY. pp. 633-653. 

Anthropogenic inputs to intertidal environments are often direct, through point-source waste disposal, but they are also indirect, from riverine, marine and/or atmospheric sources. Trace metals are partitioned between each component of the intertidal sediment-water system they are found in solution ( bulk water or interstitial water) and associated with suspended and deposited sediments. This chapter is concerned with the biogeochemistry of trace metals in deposited intertidal sediments. Two main sections follow in the first, an overview of surface sediments and sediment depth profiles is presented, and in the second, a case study is given of the historic record of Zn from saltmarsh sediments in the Severn Estuary, UK. 

Weston, N., Porubsky, W., Samarkan, V., Erikson, M., Macavoy, S., and oye, M. (2006). Porewater stoichiometry of terminal metabolic products, sulfate, and dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in estuarine intertidal creek-bank sediments. Biogeochemistry 77, 375-408. 

Paludan, C. and J. T. Morris. 1999. Distribution and speciation of phosphorus along a salinity gradient in intertidal marsh sediments. Biogeochemistry 45 197-221. 

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