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Nutrient cycling in streams involves some downstream transport before the cycle is completed. Thus, the path traveled by a nutrient atom in passing through the cycle can be visualized as a spiral. As an index of the spiralling process, we introduce spiralling length, defined as the average distance associated with one complete cycle of a nutrient atom. This index provides a measure of the utilization of nutrients relative to the available supply from upstream. Using 32 P as a tracer, we estimated a spiralling length of 193 m for phosphorus in a small woodland stream.Key words: downstream transport, nutrient cycling, phosphorus, spiralling, stream
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Newbold et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7662def4aa71f97f31231 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/f81-114
J. Denis Newbold
Jerry W. Elwood
Robert V. O’Neill
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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