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Blue-green algae are common in the benthos of Mirror Lake, New Hampshire (U. S. A.) — on macrophytes and on the lake bottom-and are probably responsible for the variable, sometimes high rates of N-fixation that detected by a series of acetylene-reduction assays during September and October.
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Moeller, R.E., Roskoski, J.P. Nitrogen-fixation in the littoral benthos of an oligotrophic lake. Hydrobiologia 60, 13–16 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018682
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