By Professor emeritus Har Darshan Kumar, Professor Dr. Donat-P. Häder (auth.)
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Furthermore, in eutrophic and calcium-rich waters the calcium concentration sometimes influences the phosphate concentration; calcium exerts a strong influence on phosphate concentration at high pH values in Lake George in Uganda. Elements commonly enter natural waters by erosion. In oligotrophic lakes in the English Lake District the N:P ratio is considerably higher than 10, and phosphate becomes limiting. g. tropical lakes, in non-forested regions, the N:P ratio is less than 10 and then nitrogen rather than phosphorus becomes the limiting nutrient.
Two regions can be distinguished where terrestrial production may be potentially limited: (1) by precipitation at latitudes less than 40° and (2) by temperature at higher latitudes. 03 kg m-2) occurs at cold and dry Arctic sites. How much of the terrestrial production reaches aquatic bodies? Small, flowing waters seem to receive most of their energy from terrestrial sources, but such contribution seems much smaller in larger water bodies. In large lakes, the energetic contribution of the organic matter from land is usually quite small or negligible.
Phenol and benzoate) are metabolized under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions, and it is believed that the presence of a functional group such as a hydroxy- or carboxy-substituent facilitates the anaerobic breakdown of the aromatic ring. Benzene, toluene, and xylene lack functional groups. The existence of anaerobic catabolic pathways for aromatic hydrocarbons has been a subject of debate and controversy. Some observations from polluted aquifers point to slow anaerobic degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons but conclusive evidence for a microbial metabolism of benzene, toluene, and xylene in the absence of molecular oxygen has emerged only recently (Zeyer et al.