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Methods for Measuring Benthic Community Respiration Rates

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Polarographic Oxygen Sensors

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Mortimer [29] pointed out the importance of sediments for nutrient recycling and for the oxygen balance of lakes, following which, oxygen uptake of benthic communities has been investigated by many authors. The overall aim was to use benthic community respiration as an indirect measure for trophic conditions of different lenitic and lotic water habitats. Hayes and MacAulay [19] related the oxygen consumption rates of sediments to the fish catch. Others [15, 35, 37] related the sediment oxygen uptake rates to the degree of eutrophication of the lakes investigated. Sediment respiration rates were also used to calculate the share of sediment in the mineralization of photosynthetically fixed carbon [17].

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Newrkla, P. (1983). Methods for Measuring Benthic Community Respiration Rates. In: Gnaiger, E., Forstner, H. (eds) Polarographic Oxygen Sensors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81863-9_25

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