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The soil lining pond bottoms is the border zone between the terrestrial and the aquatic environment. It is an area of exchange between both, which links them together and makes them interdependent. Soil is more dense owing to its solid state and is rich in nutrients, unlike water which is liquid and with a more diluted nutrient content. The upper part of the sediment is microbially active compared to the water column and to lower level sediments. According to Doremus & Clesceri (1982), one centimeter of surface sediment in Lake George, New York, U.S.A., is approximately two times more productive than 18 m of water column and four orders of magnitude more productive than sediments at 5 or more metres depth.
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Delincé, G. (1992). Pond soil. In: The Ecology of the Fish Pond Ecosystem. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3292-5_2
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