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Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5168

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Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5168

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Table 11. Benthic flux of nutrients and dissolved organic carbon measured by an in-situ flux chamber, Coeur d’Alene Lake, Idaho, 1999.

[Station locations are shown in figure 1. Latitude, longitude in degrees, minutes, seconds, North American Datum of 1927 (Kuwabara and others, 2000). Benthic flux: average flux values were determined for multiple samplings of flux chambers at each site. Data from Kuwabara and others (2000). Values rounded to 2 significant figures. Abbreviations: µg/cm2/yr, microgram per square centimeter per year]

Station name Latitude, longitude Benthic flux, (µg/cm2/yr)
Orthophosphate Nitrite plus
nitrate as
nitrogen
Ammonia as
nitrogen
Dissolved
inorganic
nitrogen
Dissolved
organic
carbon
Main channel, BF1 47°30'26", 116°51'27" 7.2 160 58 220 2,700
Mica Bay, BF2 47°36'02", 116°49'53" 22 210 110 320 1,800

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