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Article: Reports on limnology and oceanography findings from B.C. Smith and co-researchers provide new insights.
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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"A device has been developed to separate and collect large numbers of dinoflagellate cysts from sediment samples of several liters volume. The apparatus consists of a 152.5 x 44.5 x 38-cm fiberglass tank with a 20-mu m screen inserted diagonally across the long dimension, creating an inclined plane as the bottom of a settling tank," scientists writing in the journal Limnology and Oceanography - Methods report.
"A peristaltic pump delivers resuspended bottom material to the top of the deep end of the tank. The particles settle according to mass and friction as the water moves to a drain near the top center of the shallow end of the screen. The desired particles ...