The legacy of trace metal deposition from historical anthropogenic river management: A regional driver of offshore sedimentary microbial diversity.

River management, both modern and historical, have dramatically modified offshore environments. While numerous studies have described the modern impacts, very few have evaluated the legacies remaining from hundreds of years ago. Herein, we show trace metal enrichment in the surface sediment of the abandoned Yellow River Delta, hypothesized to be associated with ancient river management. Essentially, anthropogenic modification caused the river to shift, creating a 12.4×103 km2 area with elevated trace metals; characterized by clear metal deposition gradients. Geographical factors related to the ancient river mouth had the most significant influences on Zn (explained by distance to the river mouth, DTM) and Cd (DTM and sediment salinity), while the sediment absorptive capacity was associated with the reallocation of Cu (clay, silt, and iron), Ni (clay and iron), and Pb (silt and iron). Trace metal legacies showed stronger influences on prokaryotic diversity than on micro-eukaryotic diversity, with the former best described by changes in rare, rather than dominant families and classes, and explainable by an "overlapping micro-niche" model. The ancient river's legacies provide evidence of longer-term human disturbance over hundreds of years; as its impacts on associated benthic microbiomes have led to lessons for modern-day waterway management of benthic ecosystems.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Hazardous Materials

• Publication date

  2020-06-11

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123164PMID 32563906
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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