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Systematically Variable Planktonic Carbon Metabolism Along A Land-To-Lake Gradient In A Great Lakes Coastal Zone, Anthony D. Weinke, Scott T. Kendall, Daniel J. Kroll, Eric A. Strickler, Maggie E. Weinert, Thomas M. Holcomb, Angela A. Defore, Deborah K. Dila, Michael J. Snider, Leon C. Gereaux, Bopaiah Biddanda
Systematically Variable Planktonic Carbon Metabolism Along A Land-To-Lake Gradient In A Great Lakes Coastal Zone, Anthony D. Weinke, Scott T. Kendall, Daniel J. Kroll, Eric A. Strickler, Maggie E. Weinert, Thomas M. Holcomb, Angela A. Defore, Deborah K. Dila, Michael J. Snider, Leon C. Gereaux, Bopaiah Biddanda
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During the summers of 2002–2013, we measured rates of carbon metabolism in surface waters of six sites across a land-to-lake gradient from the upstream end of drowned river-mouth Muskegon Lake (ML) (freshwater estuary) to 19 km offshore in Lake Michigan (LM) (a Great Lake). Despite considerable inter-year variability, the average rates of gross production (GP), respiration (R) and net production (NP) across ML (604 ± 58, 222 ± 22 and 381 ± 52 µg C L−1 day−1, respectively) decreased steeply in the furthest offshore LM site (22 ± 3, 55 ± 17 and −33 ± 15 µg …