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Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
Biogeosciences, 19, 2881–2902, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2881-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Biogeosciences, 19, 2881–2902, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2881-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
Research article
13 Jun 2022
Research article | 13 Jun 2022

Origin, transport, and retention of fluvial sedimentary organic matter in South Africa's largest freshwater wetland, Mkhuze Wetland System

Julia Gensel et al.

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We investigated organic matter (OM) and plant-wax-derived biomarkers in sediments and plants along the Mkhuze River to constrain OM's origin and transport pathways within South Africa's largest freshwater wetland. Presently, it efficiently captures OM, so neither transport from upstream areas nor export from the swamp occurs. Thus, we emphasize that such geomorphological features can alter OM provenance, questioning the assumption of watershed-integrated information in downstream sediments.
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