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Bio-assay of nitrogen available to two species of phytoplankton in an off-shore water
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
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A bio-assay of the nitrogen which was available to two phytoplankton species with their associated bacteria in an off-shore water is described.
The concentrations found by assay (11·5 and 13μg N/1.) were similar to the concentration of total inorganic nitrogen compounds found by analysis (10μg N/1.).
Of the organic nitrogen normally present in solution in sea water, an insignificant quantity appears to be available to the plant-bacteria community.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 157 - 160
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1957
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