HIGH RATES OF PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN A SEMI-ARID TAILWATER: IMPLICATIONS FOR SELF-REGULATED PRODUCTION

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العنوان: HIGH RATES OF PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN A SEMI-ARID TAILWATER: IMPLICATIONS FOR SELF-REGULATED PRODUCTION
المؤلفون: Jeramie Memmott, Christian H. Fritsen, C. J. Davis, Eric D. Wirthlin
المصدر: River Research and Applications. 28:1820-1829
بيانات النشر: Wiley, 2011.
سنة النشر: 2011
مصطلحات موضوعية: Hydrology, Biomass (ecology), Productivity (ecology), Environmental Chemistry, Environmental science, Growing season, Periphyton, Stream metabolism, Arid, Tailwater, Substrate (marine biology), General Environmental Science, Water Science and Technology
الوصف: Reservoir-river systems in desert environments may provide the optimal combination of environmental conditions (e.g. light, nutrients, temperature, and flow) that maximizes primary production in downstream reaches. Stream metabolism was measured using an open-system approach each month during spring-summer in a semi-arid tailwater (South Fork Humboldt River) in the central Great Basin, USA. Spatial and temporal differences in metabolic rates were evident despite tailwater reaches sustaining comparable standing stocks of periphyton (>10 µg chla cm−2) during this growing season. Primary productivity was highest (15 to 36 g O2 m−2 day−1) in July, supporting previous studies that have described arid regulated/unregulated streams as ultra-productive. Substrate availability when combined with self-shading and hypoxic conditions created a system that was likely near the maximal productivity that stream systems can achieve because of the self-regulating attributes that thick periphyton mats impose upon themselves as they reach high biomass and maximal production rates. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
تدمد: 1535-1459
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::858dbf5eb0592eb48596ccfa41daac77
https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.1573
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........858dbf5eb0592eb48596ccfa41daac77
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE