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Microbially — related redox changes in a subtropical lake I.In situ monitoring of the annual redox cycle

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Using a recently developedin situ multiprobe the redox development in the water column of warm-monomictic Lake Kinneret was investigated during three annual cycles. During the time when sulfide release into the meta- and hypolimnion is initiated, our measurements show a linear relationship, close to the thermodynamic function, between the platinum electrode potential and the amount of sulfide produced by the sulfate reducing bacteria. A change of this relationship during summer stratification coincides with the bloom of the phototrophic sulfur bacteriumChlorobium phaeobacteroides.

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  1. Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, P.O. Box 345, Tiberias, 14-102, Israel

    W. Eckert

  2. Department of Microbiology, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 168, 5300, Bonn 1, Germany

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Eckert, W., Trüper, H.G. Microbially — related redox changes in a subtropical lake I.In situ monitoring of the annual redox cycle. Biogeochemistry 21, 1–19 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00002685

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