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The measurement of dissolved organic carbon released by phytoplankton

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The effects of applied filtration vacuum and incubation time on the release of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) by natural phytoplankton populations dominated by diatoms were examined. The rate of primary production and release of DOC remained reasonably constant during a 5 hour incubation period. The measured release of DOC was found to be quite sensitive to the applied filtration vacuum, ranging from near 2 percent of fixed carbon (neglecting respiration) for gravity-filtered samples to 36 percent for samples filtered at 40 cm Hg vacuum.

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Shifrin, N.S. The measurement of dissolved organic carbon released by phytoplankton. Estuaries 3, 230–233 (1980). https://doi.org/10.2307/1352074

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