Some abiotic characteristics of shallow ponds included in an Andean peatland of the transitional desert of Chile
The study ponds are part of a peatland located in the Elqui river basin of the Andes. They turned out to be heliotropic (homoeother-mic), mesotrophic and mesopoikilohaline microlimnotopes. The ponds showed high content of dissolved metals, mainly Ca (mean ~205 mg/l), Na (~60 mg/l), Mg (~60 mg/l) and...
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Universidad de Tarapacá. Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas
2015
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-34292015000300002 |
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