Nitrate in the Sea.
- 1 March 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 14 (1) , 71-88
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400007141
Abstract
1. A method of estimating nitrates in sea-water is described. 2. A considerable concentration of nitrates occurs in the depths of the ocean and a very low concentration (0 to 10 parts per 1000 million of nitrate-nitrogen) in the surface layers of those areas where there is no upwelling of water from below. 3. The nitrates in the water of the English Channel, twenty-two miles south-west of Plymouth, are almost entirely utilised by phytoplankton in the summer, and commence to be reformed from ammonium salts at a greater rate than they are utilised by the end of the summer.Keywords
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