FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Tropical mangrove forests as a source of dissolved rare earth elements and yttrium to the ocean BT AF Dang, Duc Huy Zhang, Zhirou Wang, Wei Oursel, Benjamin Juillot, Farid Dupouy, Cecile Lemonnier, Hugues Mounier, Stephane AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:1;4:3;5:4,5;6:3,5;7:6;8:7; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:PDG-RBE-LEADNC;8:; C1 Trent School of the Environment, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Department of Chemistry, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO, Marseille, France Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 7590, MNHN, ERL IRD 206, Paris, France Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), Centre IRD Noumea, Nouvelle-Calédonie, France IFREMER, IRD, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Université de La Réunion, UMR 92200 ENTROPIE, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie, France Université de Toulon, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, MIO, Toulon, France C2 UNIV TRENT, CANADA UNIV TRENT, CANADA UNIV AIX MARSEILLE, FRANCE UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE IRD, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV TOULON, FRANCE SI NOUMEA SE PDG-RBE-LEADNC UM ENTROPIE IN WOS Ifremer UMR copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 4.685 TC 6 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00691/80345/97857.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Rare earth elements;yttrium;water stable isotopes;mangrove;estuary AB Rare earth elements (REEs) and Y, or REYs, are commonly used as geochemical proxies for water chemistry, history of the continental crust and provenance studies. At the continent-ocean interface, the estuarine geochemistry of REYs is commonly thought to be driven by large-scale removal of the dissolved fraction. Consequently, contributions of river-borne dissolved REYs to the marine budget are assumed to represent a minor fraction of the total flux. Here, we report a significant release of dissolved REYs, together with a fractionation between light REEs, heavy REEs and Y, in the tropical mangrove estuaries of New Caledonia. These observations were associated with biogeochemical processes of the redox-dynamic mangrove system, rather than a possible contribution of REYs from a fresh groundwater source, based on stable water isotope compositions. These findings imply that tropical mangrove estuaries may act as a sizeable source of REYs to the ocean rather than buffer zones, at least for the dissolved fraction. We also extrapolated our data to compute the contributions of dissolved REY fluxes from the mangroves to global oceans. This preliminary calculation suggests that the mangrove system supplies 2.6-5% of global river-borne dissolved Nd, an REE with the most comprehensive mass balance. Therefore, given that the ocean mass budget of REYs remains unbalanced with fluxes missing on a global scale, considering the mangrove system as an input of oceanic mass balance models may help improve our understanding of the global distribution of REYs. PY 2021 PD AUG SO Chemical Geology SN 0009-2541 PU Elsevier BV VL 576 UT 000658933300002 DI 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120278 ID 80345 ER EF