Net primary production and seasonal CO2 and CH4 fluxes in a Trapa natans L. meadow

The main hypothesis of this work is that Trapa natans L. and similar floating leaved macrophytes are only temporary sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide and that they favour water hypoxia and large methane efflux from sediment to the atmosphere, due to their shading effect and scarce ability to trans...

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Main Authors: Marco BARTOLI, Enrica PIEROBON, Rossano BOLPAGNI, Pierluigi VIAROLI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2010-08-01
Series:Journal of Limnology
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Online Access:http://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/96