Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

SIZE FRACTIONATION OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON IN THE SURFACE WATERS OF THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN1

SIZE FRACTIONATION OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON IN THE SURFACE WATERS OF THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN1 NOTES AND COMMENT SIZE FRACTIONATION OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON IN THE SURFACE WATERS OF THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS Although the total standing crop of par- fractional filtration column ( Fig. 1)) thus ticulate organic carbon (living oerganisms dividing the total particulate matter into 7 and detritus) constitutes the basic foo,d re- fractions. Each coarse filter was made source fo’r filter-feeding pelagic animals, from nylon bolting cloth glued to a plastic this crop is not utilized uniformly. The funnel to o’btain an effective filtration area availability of organic carbon as food for of about 25 cm2, The funnels were stacked any particular species depends partly upon so that the water passed thro,ugh succes- the size of the particles in which it occurs. sively finer filters and finally through glass 1Vood and Davis ( 1956), Yentsch and Ry- fiber filters of approximately 2 ,U pore size ther ( 1959)) and Teixeira ( 1963) have ( P. M. Williams, personal communication). determined the contributio,ns of net phyto- Here, the average pore size of these filters plankton and nannoplankton to the total is arbitrarily taken as 1 ,U to allow for in- chlorophyll content, cell numbers, and 14C creased retention as the filters http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Limnology and Oceanography Wiley

SIZE FRACTIONATION OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON IN THE SURFACE WATERS OF THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN1

MULLIN, MICHAEL M.
Limnology and Oceanography , Volume 10 (3) – Apr 1, 1965
Download PDF
4 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/size-fractionation-of-particulate-organic-carbon-in-the-surface-waters-Ky7zS8pgWd

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2014, by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
ISSN
0024-3590
eISSN
1939-5590
DOI
10.4319/lo.1965.10.3.0459
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

NOTES AND COMMENT SIZE FRACTIONATION OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON IN THE SURFACE WATERS OF THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS Although the total standing crop of par- fractional filtration column ( Fig. 1)) thus ticulate organic carbon (living oerganisms dividing the total particulate matter into 7 and detritus) constitutes the basic foo,d re- fractions. Each coarse filter was made source fo’r filter-feeding pelagic animals, from nylon bolting cloth glued to a plastic this crop is not utilized uniformly. The funnel to o’btain an effective filtration area availability of organic carbon as food for of about 25 cm2, The funnels were stacked any particular species depends partly upon so that the water passed thro,ugh succes- the size of the particles in which it occurs. sively finer filters and finally through glass 1Vood and Davis ( 1956), Yentsch and Ry- fiber filters of approximately 2 ,U pore size ther ( 1959)) and Teixeira ( 1963) have ( P. M. Williams, personal communication). determined the contributio,ns of net phyto- Here, the average pore size of these filters plankton and nannoplankton to the total is arbitrarily taken as 1 ,U to allow for in- chlorophyll content, cell numbers, and 14C creased retention as the filters

Journal

Limnology and Oceanography – Wiley

Published: Apr 1, 1965

There are no references for this article.