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The river along the Jordan canyon reach consists of a series of small cascades inducing turbulent flow of water in contact with stones covered by algal and microbial mat.
Ammonia disappearance, organic N and P oxidation were studied in a laboratory model system and in the river. The processes studied can be described using first order kinetics, the rate constants of which are about 0.15, 0.015 and 0.065 h−1 for ammonium, organic N and organic P, respectively.
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This work is a contribution of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa, Israel. The work was supported by the Lake Kinneret Authority.
The senior author is presently at the USDA-SEA, Water Quality Management Lab, P.O. Box 1430, Durant, OK 74701, U.S.A.
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Avnimelech, Y., Lacher, M. & Raveh, A. Studies on Lake Kinneret (sea of galilee) watershed. Water Air Soil Pollut 15, 87–96 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285535
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