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Table 2 Daily sum and standard deviation (parenthesis) of the hourly material flux and the percent of the total daily flux contributed by each pond, plus the total wetland material flux for inorganic and organic materials in Liberty Island wetland measured on July 12–13, 2006

From: Tidal day organic and inorganic material flux of ponds in the Liberty Island freshwater tidal wetland

Material

Upper Beaver Pond (kg day−1)

%

Lower Beaver Pond (kg day−1)

%

Main Pond (kg day−1)

%

Wetland (kg day−1)

Ammonium

4 (0.4)

1

30 (1)

4

−766 (35)

96

−732 (34)

Bromide

−9.7 (0.9)

5

60 (1.6)

34

−109 (14)

61

−58 (13)

Chloride

−2,926 (297)

8

18,113 (521)

52

−13,646 (5,119)

39

1,540 (4,877)

Nitrate

−2.6 (2.0)

<1

344 (7)

23

−1,127 (147)

76

−786 (140)

Soluble phosphorus

−7.4 (1.7)

2

93 (3)

28

−234 (33)

70

−148 (32)

Total phosphate

−32.5 (2.9)

9

216 (6)

61

−103 (57)

29

80 (54)

Silica

−2,514 (210)

4

22,915 (548)

41

−31,074 (8,319)

55

−10,674 (7,887)

Total suspended solids

−23,234 (950)

6

96,105 (2,887)

25

−267,456 (21,640)

69

−194,585 (19,968)

Volatile suspended solids

−6,949 (205)

11

12,851 (522)

21

−40,841 (4,009)

67

−34,939 (3,720)

Total organic carbon

−426 (66)

7

4,389 (130)

72

−1,291 (1,301)

21

2,672 (1,232)

Dissolved organic carbon

−680 (60)

8

4,563 (117)

57

−2,776 (1,186)

35

1,106 (1,127)

Dissolved organic nitrogen

−118 (10)

2

921 (24)

17

−4,316 (286)

81

−3,513 (269)

Chlorophyll a

−0.9 (0.08)

9

9.1 (0.2)

87

0.40 (2.6)

4

9 (2)

Phaeophytin

−1.2 (0.06)

9

4.8 (0.2)

37

−7.2 (1.2)

55

−4 (1)

  1. n = 102 for each pond.