ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Matter
Content in Urban Rivers under Different
Environmental Impact Zones:
A case study of China’s Tuo River
More details
Hide details
1
School of Earth and the Environment, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, China
2
National Engineering Research Center of Coal Mine Water Hazard Control (Suzhou University), Suzhou, China
Submission date: 2019-12-27
Final revision date: 2020-02-23
Acceptance date: 2020-02-23
Online publication date: 2020-04-30
Publication date: 2020-06-08
Corresponding author
Herong Gui
National Engineering Research Center of Coal Mine Water Hazard Controlling, Suzhou University, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(5):3891-3900
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Although urbanization has significant effects on the landscape around the rivers, there are few
studies on the fluorescence characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in watersheds under
different landscape models. Therefore, in this study the optical properties of DOM in the same river
under different environmental impact zones as the research object, by fluorescence excitation-emission
matrix (EEM) combine with the parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) method and mathematical statistics
to research the tourist, residential and agricultural impact. The results show that agriculture has
a significant effect on the concentrations of total nitrogen (TN) and chemical oxygen demand (COD)
in the surface water; terrestrial humic-like and two protein-like component were derived using
the PARAFAC modeling on sample fluorescence spectra, and significant differences fluorescent
components in a river under different environmental impact zones. Fluorescence index analysis showed
that autochthonous was the main sources of DOM. Correlation and principal component analysis (PCA)
were applied to assess the relationships of fluorescent components, fluorescent indices, and water
quality parameters. It revealed agricultural non-point source and the impact of human activities on the
watershed.