New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Relative importance of mieroflora and allophanic clays to the phosphorus dynamics of Lake Rerewhakaaitu

E. White

and

G. W. Payne

Ecology Division. Freshwater Section, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, P.O. Box 415, Taupo, New Zealand

Abstract The contention that allophanic clays in Lake Rerewhakaaitu are a major influence in reducing the availability of phosphorus to plants is examined and discounted. Phosphate spikes added to lake water are removed from solution by biotic mechanisms rather than by clays.

Keywords Lake Rerewhakaaitu, Phosphate-phosphorus, Phosphorus removal, Mieroflora, Radioactive tracers.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1980, 14(1): 83-85
Received 25 June 1979; revision received 26 October 1979

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