Describing additional fluxes to deep sediment traps and water-column decay in a coastal environment

摘要

Sediment traps were moored at three stations in Sechelt Inlet, a fjord in southern British Columbia, Canada, for five one-month deployment periods from late January to late June, 1991. On each mooring were traps at three depths; total and constituent fluxes often increased with depth. We present the flux data and describe an analytical model that is based on a set of simultaneous equations for which two unknowns are the decay rate of material representatively caught by two vertically- separated sediment traps and the composition of material causing observed increases in flux with depth.