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Ponds have higher nutrients and respiration

Claim that ponds show higher total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and respiration rates compared to lakes.

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Evidence Quote

“Higher TN, TP, and ecosystem respiration found in ponds.”

Arguments

Total nitrogen concentration (TN)subject

Connections (3)

Ecosystem biological metricsFactor
Reasoning for nonlinear ecosystem metric boundaries defining pondsInferenceChain
Ponds are ecologically distinct in structure and functionAssociation

Evidence

“Reference to LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of US lakes. GigaScience 6, gix101 (2017).”

(2017). LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of US lakes

“USEPA. National Lakes assessment 2012: a collaborative survey of lakes in the United States. EPA 841-R-16-113. (2016).”

(2016). National Lakes assessment 2012: a collaborative survey of lakes in the United States

“USEPA. National Lakes Assessment 2012 (nla2012_waterchem_wide.csv, nla2012_wide_siteinfo_08232 016.csv, and corresponding metadata files). (2016).”

(2016). National Lakes Assessment 2012 datasets

“EEA. Waterbase: European Environment Agency (EEA) water quality data. https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/waterbase-water-quality-2 (2020).”

(2020). EEA Waterbase: European Environment Agency water quality data link ↗

“Hoellein, T. J., Bruesewitz, D. A. & Richardson, D. C. Revisiting Odum (1956): A synthesis of aquatic ecosystem metabolism. Limnol. Oceanogr. 58, 2089–2100 (2013).”

(2013). Revisiting Odum (1956): A synthesis of aquatic ecosystem metabolism