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Measuring Nutrient Spiralling in Streams
Abstract
Nutrient cycling in streams involves some downstream transport before the cycle is completed. Thus, the path traveled by a nutrient atom in passing through the cycle can be visualized as a spiral. As an index of the spiralling process, we introduce spiralling length, defined as the average distance associated with one complete cycle of a nutrient atom. This index provides a measure of the utilization of nutrients relative to the available supply from upstream. Using 32 P as a tracer, we estimated a spiralling length of 193 m for phosphorus in a small woodland stream.Key words: downstream transport, nutrient cycling, phosphorus, spiralling, stream
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Metadata
- Authors
- Newbold, J. D., Elwood, J. W., O'Neill, R. V., & Winkle, W. V.
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
- Publisher
- Canadian Science Publishing
- Published
- 1981-07-01
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 860-863
- ISSN
- 0706-652X (ISSN-L)
- 1205-7533
- OpenAlex
- W2140110772
- Cited by
- 709
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 8.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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