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Science 24 August 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4101, pp. 744 - 747
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4101.744
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Late Glacial and Postglacial Productivity Changes in a New England Pond

Donald R. Whitehead 1, Haydon Rochester Jr. 1, Steven W. Rissing 1, Claudia B. Douglass 1, and Mark C. Sheehan 1

1 Division of Biological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington 47401

During the late glacial and postglacial the productivity of Berry Pond in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, underwent a number of significant oscillations. This is suggested by data on sedimentary chlorophyll degradation products, diatoms, and Cladocera. The productivity changes were. apparently controlled by changes in weathering, terrestrial vegetation in the watershed, litter production, and runoff. There are associated changes in cladoceran community structure.


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