Role of River–Lake System Sediments and Microbial Activity in the Hyporheic Zone
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Department of Water Resources and Climatology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
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Department of Chemistry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Plac Łódzki 4, 10-957 Olsztyn, Poland
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Water 2021, 13(24), 3499; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243499
Received: 14 September 2021
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Revised: 24 November 2021
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Accepted: 1 December 2021
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Published: 8 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Topic Emerging Solutions for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
The effect of river–lake systems on the surface water self-purification process is a significant and not fully recognised scientific issue. The conditions prevailing in the hyporheic zone of these ecosystems are of great importance in the process of component exchange between water and sediments. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the type of sediments located at the bottom of the riverbed being part of a river–lake system on microbial activity in the hyporheic zone. An ex situ experiment was used to study the microbiological activity and the transformation of components in the collected river sediments. It was found that the specific properties of sediments varied depending on their location in the riverbed between the lakes comprising the system and that the prevailing meteorological conditions can also have an effect on microbial activity in the hyporheic zone, e.g., aerobic conditions. These conditions determined the intensity of component conversion in the sediments due to microbial metabolism. A closer understanding of the processes occurring in the hyporheic zone may allow the processes of water self-purification within river–lake systems to be supported in the future, which will contribute to the improvement of surface water quality.
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Kuriata-Potasznik, A.; Szymczyk, S.; Bęś, A.; Sidoruk, M.; Skwierawski, A.; Kobus, S. Role of River–Lake System Sediments and Microbial Activity in the Hyporheic Zone. Water 2021, 13, 3499. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243499
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Kuriata-Potasznik A, Szymczyk S, Bęś A, Sidoruk M, Skwierawski A, Kobus S. Role of River–Lake System Sediments and Microbial Activity in the Hyporheic Zone. Water. 2021; 13(24):3499. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243499
Chicago/Turabian StyleKuriata-Potasznik, Angela, Sławomir Szymczyk, Agnieszka Bęś, Marcin Sidoruk, Andrzej Skwierawski, and Szymon Kobus. 2021. "Role of River–Lake System Sediments and Microbial Activity in the Hyporheic Zone" Water 13, no. 24: 3499. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243499
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