Benthic phosphorus cycling in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

Lomnitz, Ulrike; Sommer, Stefan; Dale, Andrew W.; Löscher, Carolin R.; Noffke, Anna; Wallmann, Klaus; Hensen, Christian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1367-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1367-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1367-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

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04 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2016

Benthic phosphorus cycling in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

Ulrike Lomnitz, Stefan Sommer, Andrew W. Dale, Carolin R. Löscher, Anna Noffke, Klaus Wallmann, and Christian Hensen

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RC C7716: 'Review of bg-2015-480', Peter Kraal, 16 Nov 2015
- AC C8982: 'Authors response', Ulrike Lomnitz, 12 Jan 2016
RC C7857: 'Interactive comment by Tom Jilbert on "Benthic phosphorus cycling in the Peruvian Oxygen Minimum Zone" by Lomnitz et al.', Tom Jilbert, 22 Nov 2015

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (13 Jan 2016) by Jack Middelburg

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The study presents a P budget including the P input from the water column, the P burial in the sediments, as well as the P release from the sediments. We found that the P input could not maintain the P release rates. Consideration of other P sources, e.g., terrigenous P and P released from the dissolution of Fe oxyhydroxides, showed that none of these can account for the missing P. Thus, it is likely that abundant sulfide-oxidizing bacteria release the missing P during our measurement period.