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Particulate Organic Matter (POM) in the Humid and Wet Zones of the Ellegirini River, Kenya

✍ Scribed by Charles Mwithali M'Erimba; Maria Leichtfried; Jude Mutuku Mathooko

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
139 KB
Volume
92
Category
Article
ISSN
1434-2944

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Field experiments to quantify the amount of particulate organic matter as an energy source for the system were conducted between February 2002 and June 2002 in humid and wet zones of the Ellegirini River in Kenya. The experiment involved collecting ten random samples from each zone. The humid zone held a hundred times more coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM) ash‐free dry mass than the wet zone, where the stream current and other influencing parameters decreased CPOM amount. In conclusion it can be said that these significant differences are the result of different attributes between these two zones. Factors like current velocity, discharge or the absence of CPOM holding structures are responsible for low CPOM in the wet zone. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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