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Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphate are three macroelements of organisms. These elements are core components of organic matter and biological macromolecules. For this reason, interest in the measurement of particulate organic carbon (POC), nitrogen (PON), and phosphorus (POP) is becoming a hot research topic. In this section, the measurement methods for marine POC, PON, and POP, such as theory of operation, sampling and measuring procedures, and calculation, were introduced so that the data are of high quality and comparable.
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Xu, K., Gao, K., Fu, Fx., Hutchins, D.A. (2021). Measurements of Particulate Organic Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus. In: Gao, K., Hutchins, D.A., Beardall, J. (eds) Research Methods of Environmental Physiology in Aquatic Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5354-7_30
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