✦ LIBER ✦
Flax Pond ecosystem study: Exchanges of phosphorus between a salt marsh and the coastal waters of Long Island Sound
✍ Scribed by G. M. Woodwell; D. E. Whitney
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 476 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-3162
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✦ Synopsis
The exchanges of p h o s p h o r u s between the Flax Pond, a tidal Spartina alterniflora m a r s h on the north shore of Long Island (USA) and Long Island Sound were m e a s u r e d over 18 months. P h o s p h a t e was exported from the m a r s h from May through D e c e m b e r and imported during the r e m a i n d e r of the year. Organic p h o s p h o r u s appears to be accumulated in all seasons, but the yearly phosphorus budget of the m a r s h is a p p r o x i m a t ely balanced d e s p i t e the a c c u m u l a t i o n of about 6 mm of sediment annually.