Are flood-driven turbidity currents hot spots for priming effect in lakes?

In deep stratified lakes, such as Lake Geneva, flood-driven turbidity currents are thought to contribute to the replenishment of deep oxygen by significant transport of river waters saturated with oxygen into the hypolimnion. The overarching aim of this study was to test this long-standing hypothesi...

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Main Authors: D. Bouffard, M.-E. Perga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-06-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/3573/2016/bg-13-3573-2016.pdf