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Two surfaces soils with contrasting physical and chemical characteristics were placed in model ponds to provide a sediment phosphate (P) source. Water samples were obtained weekly or biweekly and analyzed for total, total soluble, and soluble reactive P. Fertilizer P additions which exceeded sediment P absorption capacity occasionally tended to produce significantly higher P concentrations. Smaller P additions had no influence on pond P concentrations and no relationship between pond P concentrations and sediment EPC values was found. Soluble reactive P concentrations in most of the ponds were similar and seldom > 5 µg/1.
Two mechanisms significantly affected P transport from the sediments. The first were macrophytic plants which provided a large P sink in the water column. The second was fixation of readily soluble P within the sediments. Plant growth within the ponds used < 5% of the readily soluble P initially present. Diffusion of P from the sediments did not support large SRP concentrations within the ponds.
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Olness, A., Troeger, W.W., Huckleberry, R.R. et al. Phosphorus in a model pond study:II. Sediment fertility and water concentrations. Hydrobiologia 63, 99–104 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00030072
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