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Las sales nutrientes en las rías gallegas

Authors: Prego, R.;

Las sales nutrientes en las rías gallegas

Abstract

[ES] La situación de las sales nutrientes en las rías gallegas ha sido bien descrita cualitativamente; sin embargo son escasos los datos cuantitativos. Los flujos de sales nutrientes se pueden obtener como simple producto del caudal de las corrientes por sus concentraciones. Ello se aplicó a las rías de Muros, Arosa y, sobre todo, a la de Vigo. Los caudales obtenidos oscilan entre los 2400 m3.S-1 en invierno y 300 m3.s-1 en verano; en ésta época puede llegar a triplicarse cuando hay afloramiento. Durante el invierno es importante el aporte debido al agua dulce (28 % del nitrógeno inorgánico, 17 % del fosfato y 50 % del silicato) y las sales nutrientes abandonan las rías bajas sin sufrir transformaciones; se exportan sobre 20 mol.S-1 de nitrato, nitrito y amonio e igual cantidad de silicato. En primavera disminuyen estos flujos para ser próximos a 1 mol.S-1 en verano, salvo si hay afloramiento; en esta época, la remineralización dentro de la ría de Vigo aporta en torno a un 25 % del total de las sales nutrientes. Para las rías altas no existe información cuantitativa, aunque, en momentos de afloramiento, los flujos deberán ser menores ya que penetraría agua de enfriamiento invernal en el mar Cantábrico; el flujo de nitrato se estimaría en 4 mol.S-1. En un futuro sería necesario cuantificar el intercambio de sales nutrientes en las rías altas, evaluando también la importancia de las mareas, y completar el estudio realizado en las rías bajas

[EN] The qualitative situation of nutrient salts has been well described in Galician Rias; hovewer, there is little quantitative data. The nutrient salt fluxes can be obtained from a simple multiplication of flow rates and their concentrations. The method has been applied to the Rias of Muros, Arosa and, in specialised way, in Vigo. The resultant flow ranges from 2.400 m3 S-1 in winter to 300 m3 S-1 in summer. In the last case, the flow may be three times larger when upwelling occurs. During winter it is very important that the nutrients of freshwater origin (28 % inorganic nitrogen, 17 % phosphate and 50 % silicate) and the salts leave the Rias Bajas without any transformations. About 20 mol S-1 of nitrate, nitrite and ammonium are exported. and a similar flux of silicate. These fluxes decrease during spring until there is a flux of approximately 1 mol S-1 in summer, and in the absence of upwelling. In the ria of Vigo, remineralization supplies around 25 % of the total nutrient salts during summer. There is no quantitative information about Rias Altas, but the fluxes may be larger than in the Rias Bajas because the entry of seawater is caused by winter cooling in the Cantabrian Sea. The nitrate flux is estimated to be 4 mol S-1. In the future it will be necessary to quantify the nutrient budgets in the Rias Altas and evaluate the influence of tides, and to complete the results of Rias Bajas

31 pages, 16 figures, 7 tables

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