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Re: Phosphate limitation of algae
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Phosphate limitation of algae
- From: Doug Karpa-Wilson <dkarpawi at indiana_edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 12:20:15 -0500
- In-Reply-To: <200202020848.g128m6Y11815 at actwin_com>
- References: <200202020848.g128m6Y11815 at actwin_com>
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> > From: "Doug Karpa-Wilson" <dkarpawi at indiana_edu>
>> Subject: phosphate and algae?
>>
>> I know it's the received wisdom that phosphate will limit algal growth,
Tom:
>In _most_ natural FW environments.
I'll have to take a look at the aquatic ecosystem literature, that's
a great idea. One thing is that tanks are not link regular
freshwater environments, so I wonder to what extent they're really
comparable. I find Roger Miller's results with the vallisneria
interesting, to be sure. I suppose that there's a lot of experience
out there that hasn't been codified, but that suggests that this idea
isn't totally bunk. Someone would have noticed by now if it had no
effect since I suppose many of you all have some kind of phosphate
kit.
Doug
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