Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in Sediments and Seagrass Beds and Its Impact on Shallow Water Benthic Optical Properties.

摘要

The optical properties of shallow water coastal environments are a complex function of physical and biogeochemical processes occurring both in sediments and in the water column. Developing models of the optical properties of these environments requires further knowledge of the processes affecting light alteration and modification by biogeochemical reactions in the surficial sediments and at the sediment-water interface. The goal of this proposal is to examine one aspect of this problem, namely the impact of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in sediment pore waters on benthic optical properties.