文摘
Ten sediments were collected from the northern part of Taihu Lake, China. They were incubated for 24 h and 80 days to analyze the adsorption characteristics. After adsorption, the residual sediments were extracted with 0.01 M CaCl2 and 0.5 M NaHCO3 separately. Maximum buffer capacities of the Langmuir and Freundlich functions of 80-day incubation were highly correlated with 24 h (R2 = 0.97). A longer time would enhance the resistance of the sediments to P changes in the water. Adsorption and NaHCO3-P were highly linearly related with R2 > 0.969, but the relationships between 24 h and 80 days were different. The relationships between adsorption and CaCl2-P could be better explained (97 %) by segmented line models, but the fitting results were affected by incubation time. An interesting finding is that when we plotted the NaHCO3-P and CaCl2-P together by a segmented line model, the data showed a uniform trend unrelated to the incubation time. NaHCO3-P is seldom used to evaluate P status in sediments in comparison with soils. Yet, our results suggested NaHCO3-P is a good bridge to link the sediments P retention ability and P release risk. Due to its simplicity, NaHCO3-P has promising potential in predicting the transfer of P from sediments.