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The Silica Content of some Natural Waters and of Culture Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. R. G. Atkins
W. R. G. Atkins
Affiliation:
Head of the Department of General Physiology at the Plymouth Laboratory.
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Extract

When studying the seasonal changes in the algal plankton in relation to the supply of the constituents necessary for their growth, one is led to seek the source of the silica used to form the valves of the diatoms and to consider whether lack of silica might be a factor limiting their multiplication.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , December 1923 , pp. 151 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1923

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