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IN a recent issue of NATURE1, R. M. Bond has published determinations of the dissolved oxygen in the water of a swamp in Haiti, and has attributed the contrast between the high values obtained and the low concentrations which L. C. Beadle and I found in swamp waters in the Paraguayan Chaco2 to the results of differences in the amount of calcium carbonate in the soil below the swamps.
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NATURE, 132, 277, Aug. 19, 1933.
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CARTER, G. Ecology of Tropical Swamps. Nature 132, 896–897 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132896b0
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