Abstract
Eight large outdoor tanks (~8,000 liters) were brought to a steady state algal population by the constant addition of Lake Tahoe water alone or combined with 0.1 and 1.0% additions of secondary or tertiary sewage effluents. 14C assimilation rates and chlorophyll concentrations were related to growth rate and limiting nutrient. This result would be expected from the kinetics of a steady state (chemostat) system. Radioactive carbon fixation values underestimated the productivity of the phytoplankton as measured by the weight of the particulate organic matter produced per residence time. 14C assimilation rates were highly correlated with algal chlorophyll concentration but poorly correlated with particulate organic matter concentration in the tanks at steady state.
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