A partial carbon budget for Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

A partial carbon budget for Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

Measurements of benthic community oxygen demand along a transect from the north shore to the center of the lake indicates that more carbon is used for benthic metabolism alone than is supplied by primary production. This apparent anomaly is examined and hypotheses presented to explain it.

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Veröffentlicht in:Estuaries 1981-09, Vol.4 (3), p.264-264
Hauptverfasser: Bahr, LM Jr, Roberts, D W
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Sprache:eng
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Brackish
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Zusammenfassung:Measurements of benthic community oxygen demand along a transect from the north shore to the center of the lake indicates that more carbon is used for benthic metabolism alone than is supplied by primary production. This apparent anomaly is examined and hypotheses presented to explain it.
ISSN:0160-8347