The use of Fick's First Law for predicti
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Paul S. Lavery; Carolyn E. Oldham; Marco Ghisalberti
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Porewater fluxes into or out of the sediments in aquatic systems are frequently estimated using Fick's First Law. This assumes that diffusive processes control the transport of nutrients. As a corollary, advection, bioturbation and chemical processes are assumed not to be significant. T