Nitrogen Fixation and the Utilization of Other Inorganic Nitrogen Sources in a Subarctic Lake

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Author: Billaud, Vera A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1968
• Subjects: General Medicine; Smith Lake; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f68-187; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f68-187

A year-round limnological study of the biological utilization of molecular nitrogen, ammonia, and nitrate in Smith Lake, a small subarctic lake in interior Alaska, showed that ammonia was consistently the most important nitrogen source. Of the two main algal production periods, the first took place...