Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Effects of reclamation on heavy metal pollution in a coastal wetland reserve

  • Published:
Journal of Coastal Conservation Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Owing to accelerating reclamation activities in the coastal wetland reserves, it is of great importance to analyze the effects of wetland reclamation on heavy metal pollution in these areas. Soil samples were collected from reclamation and natural habitats in Yancheng National Nature Reserve for Coastal Rare Birds in Jiangsu, China to investigate the effects of reclamation on the total amounts, availability, and vertical distribution of seven elemental heavy-metal pollutants. In general, the total amount and availability each element were relatively low in the two habitats and were classified as “no pollution”. Reclamation was found to significantly increase the total amount of As, Cu, and Zn as well as the pollution degrees of As, Cr, and Zn. The availability of Cu, Pb, Cd, and Cr can also be significantly affected by reclamation. Furthermore, surface-accumulation patterns of the total amounts of these heavy metals could be observed in both habitats, and the availabilities of these elements were higher in deeper soils. Reclamation also had significant impacts on the vertical distribution of Cu, Pb, Cd, and Zn. It is essential to properly monitor nearby aquacultural activities, freshwater irrigation, and traffic pollution during plant harvest to alleviate the negative effects of these human activities.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Balaguer P, Sardá R, Ruiz M, Diedrich A, Vizoso G, Tintoré J (2008) A proposal for boundary delimitation for integrated coastal zone management initiatives. Ocean & Coastal Management 51:806–814

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Blaser F, Videka-Blaser R, Karavanić I (2000) Typology and technology, two opposed or parallel methodological approaches? Opuscula Archaeologica 23-24:363–371

    Google Scholar 

  • Bora FD, Bunea CI, Rusu T, Pop N (2015) Vertical distribution and analysis of micro-, macroelements and heavy metals in the system soil-grapevine-wine in vineyard from north-West Romania. Chem Cent J 9:19

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen B, Huang H, Yu W, Zheng S, Wang J, Jiang J (2009) Marine biodiversity conservation based on integrated coastal zone management (ICZM)—a case study in Quanzhou Bay, Fujian, China. Ocean & Coastal Management 52:612–619

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen HY, Teng YG, Lu S, Wang YY, Wang JS (2015) Contamination features and health risk of soil heavy metals in China. Sci Total Environ 512-513:143–153

  • Cheng A-X, Lou Y-G, Mao Y-B, Wang L-J, Lu S, Chen X-Y (2007) Plant terpenoids: biosynthesis and ecological functions. J Integr Plant Biol 49(178):179–186

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cheng Z, Lee L, Dayan S, Grinshtein M, Shaw R (2011) Speciation of heavy metals in garden soils: evidences from selective and sequential chemical leaching. Journal of Soils & Sediments 11:628–638

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Doni S, Macci C, Peruzzi E, Iannelli R, Ceccanti B, Masciandaro G (2012) Decontamination and functional reclamation of dredged brackish sediments. Biodegradation 24:499–512

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forst MF (2009) The convergence of integrated coastal zone management and the ecosystems approach. Ocean & Coastal Management 52:294–306

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gao H, Bai J, Xiao R, Liu P, Jiang W, Wang J (2013) Levels, sources and risk assessment of trace elements in wetland soils of a typical shallow freshwater lake, China. Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment 27:275–284

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gbogbo F, Otoo SD (2015) The concentrations of five heavy metals in components of an economically important urban coastal wetland in Ghana: public health and phytoremediation implications. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment 187:1–11

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Graf M, Lair GJ, Zehetner F, Gerzabek MH (2007) Geochemical fractions of copper in soil chronosequences of selected European floodplains. Environ Pollut 148:788–796

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grosbois C, Schafer J, Bril H, Blanc G, Bossy A (2009) Deconvolution of trace element (as, Cr, Mo, Th, U) sources and pathways to surface waters of a gold mining-influenced watershed. Sci Total Environ 407:2063–2076

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grybos M, Davranche M, Gruau G, Petitjean P (2007) Is trace metal release in wetland soils controlled by organic matter mobility or Fe-oxyhydroxides reduction? Journal of Colloid & Interface Science 314:490–501

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hu Y, Wang D, Wei L, Song B (2014) Heavy metal contamination of urban topsoils in a typical region of loess plateau, China. Journal of Soils & Sediments Protection Risk Assessment & Rem 14:928–935

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jiao W, Ouyang W, Hao F, Wang F, Liu B (2014) Long-term cultivation impact on the heavy metal behavior in a reclaimed wetland, Northeast China. Journal of Soils & Sediments 14:567–576

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kong X, Cao J, Tang R, Zhang S, Dong F (2014) Pollution of intensively managed greenhouse soils by nutrients and heavy metals in the Yellow River irrigation region, Northwest China. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment 186:7719–7731

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kumar V, Sinha AK, Rodrigues PP, Mubiana VK, Blust R, Boeck GD (2015) Linking environmental heavy metal concentrations and salinity gradients with metal accumulation and their effects: a case study in 3 mussel species of Vitória estuary and Espírito Santo bay, Southeast Brazil. Sci Total Environ 523:1–15

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lambert R, Grant C, Sauvé S (2007) Cadmium and zinc in soil solution extracts following the application of phosphate fertilizers. Sci Total Environ 378:293–305

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ma ZJ et al. (2014) Rethinking China’s new great wall. Science 346:912–914

  • Mccready S, Birch GF, Taylor SE (2003) Extraction of heavy metals in Sydney harbour sediments using 1 M HCl and 0.05 M EDTA and implications for sediment-quality guidelines. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences volume 50:249–255

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paller MH, Knox AS (2013) Bioavailability of Metals in Contaminated Sediments. E3s Web of Conferences 1:77–87

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paramasivam K, Ramasamy V, Suresh G (2015) Impact of sediment characteristics on the heavy metal concentration and their ecological risk level of surface sediments of vaigai river, tamilnadu, India. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular & Biomolecular Spectroscopy 137:397–407

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rong X, Bai J, Lu Q, Zhao Q, Gao Z, Wen X, Liu X (2015) Fractionation, transfer, and ecological risks of heavy metals in riparian and ditch wetlands across a 100-year chronosequence of reclamation in an estuary of China. Science of the Total Environment 517c:66–75

  • Salomons W, Rooij NMD, Kerdijk H, Bril J (1987) Sediments as a source for contaminants? Hydrobiologia 39:13–30

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shao X, Huang B, Zhao Y, Sun W, Gu Z, Qian W (2014) Impacts of human activities and sampling strategies on soil heavy metal distribution in a rapidly developing region of China. Ecotoxicology & Environmental Safety 104:1–8

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sundaray SK, Nayak BB, Lin S, Bhatta D (2011) Geochemical speciation and risk assessment of heavy metals in the river estuarine sediments-a case study: Mahanadi basin, India. J Hazard Mater 186:1837–1846

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang L, Yan BX, Zhu L, Ou Y (2015a) The effect of reclamation on the distribution of heavy metals in saline-sodic soil of Songnen plain, China. Environmental Earth Sciences 73:1–8

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang Y, Yang L, Kong L, Liu E, Wang L, Zhu J (2015b) Spatial distribution, ecological risk assessment and source identification for heavy metals in surface sediments from Dongping Lake, Shandong, East China. Catena 125:200–205

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Xu G, Pei S, Liu J, Gao M, Hu G, Kong X (2015) Surface sediment properties and heavy metal pollution assessment in the near-shore area, North Shandong peninsula. Mar Pollut Bull. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.03.040

    Google Scholar 

  • Yang Z, Lu W, Long Y, Bao X, Yang Q (2011) Assessment of heavy metals contamination in urban topsoil from Changchun City, China. J Geochem Explor 108:27–38

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yang Y, Chen F, Zhang L, Liu J, Wu S, Kang M (2012) Comprehensive assessment of heavy metal contamination in sediment of the Pearl River estuary and adjacent shelf. Mar Pollut Bull 64:1947–1955

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yang W, Zhao H, Chen X, Yin S, Cheng X, An S (2013) Consequences of short-term C4 plant Spartina alterniflora invasions for soil organic carbon dynamics in a coastal wetland of Eastern China. Ecol Eng 61:50–57

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yang W et al. (2015) Labile and recalcitrant soil carbon and nitrogen pools in tidal Salt marshes of the eastern Chinese Coast as Affected by Short-Term C 4 Plant Spartina alterniflora Invasion. Clean – Soil Air Water 43:872–880

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang M (2008) Landscape change and its’ dynamic impacts on the habitat of red-crowned crane (gnus japonensis) in Yancheng coastal wetland, Jiangsu Province (in chinese). Northeast Normal University

  • Zhao H, Xia B, Chen F, Peng Z, Shen S (2012) Human health risk from soil heavy metal contamination under different land uses near Dabaoshan mine, Southern China. Sci Total Environ 417-418:45–54

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhou C et al. (2009) Sulfur storage changed by exotic Spartina alterniflora in coastal saltmarshes of China. Ecol Eng 35:536–543. doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.01.004

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We thank Guangfang Sun and Benfa Liu who helped collect soil samples. In addition, we thank Lining for helping to modify our paper. The funding for this research was provided by the National Basic Research Program of China (grant no. 2013CB430400).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Life Science and Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, No. 163 Xianlin Rd., Qixia Dist, Nanjing, 210093, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Lingqian Xu, Wen Yang, Fan Jiang, Yajun Qiao, Yaner Yan, Shuqing An & Xin Leng

  2. Nanjing University Ecology Research Institute of Changshu (NJUecoRICH), Changshu, 215500, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Shuqing An & Xin Leng

Authors
  1. Lingqian Xu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Wen Yang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Fan Jiang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Yajun Qiao
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Yaner Yan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Shuqing An
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Xin Leng
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Xin Leng.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Xu, L., Yang, W., Jiang, F. et al. Effects of reclamation on heavy metal pollution in a coastal wetland reserve. J Coast Conserv 22, 209–215 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-016-0438-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-016-0438-8

Keywords

Search

Navigation