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Table 1 Comparison of sediment accumulation rates (SAR) and element accumulation rates

From: Ecological impact of fast industrialization inferred from a sediment core in Seocheon, West Coast of Korean Peninsula

Region

SAR (mm year-1)

Dry mass (kg m-2 year-1)

Organic carbon (kg m-2 year-1)

P (g m-2 year-1)

Source

Yonghwasil-mot

0.91–8.88

0.79–4.27

0.10–0.59

41.85–456.71

This study

Sanggae reservoir

2.91

2.1–6.0

0.01–0.8

–

Kim (2005)

Mujechi-neup

0.10–0.12

0.2–0.4

0.09–0.3

–

Kim (2005)

Upo wetland

0.4–10

0.7–2.3

–

–

Kim and Kim (2010)

Anderson Marsh

4.1–5.2

1.07–1.38

0.11–0.16

1.17–1.32

Kim (2003)

Everglades

1.6–4.0

0.14–0.36

0.005–0.010

0.06–0.14

Craft and Richardson (1993); Kim (2003)