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A method is described to measure in situ lotic benthic community metabolism partitioned into autotrophic, heterotrophic, bacterial and inorganic components of oxidation.
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Osborne, L.L., Davies, R.W. A device to measure in situ lotic benthic metabolism. Hydrobiologia 79, 261–264 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00006322
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