PRODUCTIVITY STUDIES ON THE MADISON RIVER, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK1
- 1 April 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Limnology and Oceanography
- Vol. 12 (4) , 568-577
- https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1967.12.4.0568
Abstract
Net photosynthesis and respiration in the Madison River, Yellowstone National Park, was calculated using pH measurements to estimate CO2 changes. The upstream‐downstream method was used on five successive reaches. Primary production and macrophyte standing crops decreased downstream and the ratio of gross to net photosynthesis also became less. The downstream decline in productivity was correlated with successively lower concentrations of free CO2. The decline in free CO2 was due to photosynthetic removal during daylight and outward diffusion of CO2 during all hours of the day and night.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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