Untersuchungen über den Schwermetallhaushalt in Seen

In the mesotrophic Lake of Lucerne (Bay of Horw) and in the eutrophic Lake of Alpnach concentration and sedimentation of iron, copper, zinc, cadmium and lead were investigated as a function of time and depth, and compared with a series of physical and chemical parameters. A metal balance was made for the Lake of Alpnach. A model for the distribution of the metals between biomass, allochthonous material and dissolved phase was employed. Phenomenology and model lead to the following conclusions: the sedimentation of the metals is dominated by allochthonous particles, the biogenic particularization is partially reversed by lake internal decomposition processes and the trace metals reaching the sediment are partially redissolved.     

Limnologische Untersuchungen an einigen Seen im Amazonasgebiet

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Hydrobiologische Studien an Schweizer Alpenseen

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Ergebnisse der limnologischen Untersuchungen der Oberengadiner Seen

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Das Phytoplankton einiger Seen des Ural

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Petrographische,mineralogische und chemische Untersuchungen an Sedimenten in den Deltabereichen von Schussen und Argen

Summary The influence of suspended matter from Argen and Schussen, two affluents to the Lake of Constance, on the mouth areas has been determined by means of sediment samples. The results of the granulometric analysis prove an evident primary division of the ground, which is disturbed by allochthone materials. With increasing amount of coarse-grained material the water content of the sediments is decreasing. Quartz, carbonates and feldspars predominate close to the mouth. With progressive distance from the mouth they are mixed and replaced more and more by clay minerals, coming from affluents of the vicinity too. According to these changes an increase of autochthone components (calcite) takes place. The results of the chemical analysis show a large-faced pollution of the sediments by organic matter. In contrast to carbon and nitrogen autochthone organic phosphorus is mineralized until the analytical limit. Therefore the C/P-relation oscillates with the station where the sediment sample has been taken, but the C/N-quotient is nearly constant. As a proof for pollution of the sediments by organic matter the determination of total-ammonium is adapted. A high concentration gradient exists between interstitial water and lake water. An exchange takes place mainly at areas with polluted sediments, because the density of the Tubificidae population here is high too.      

Untersuchungen über den Harnstoffeintrag in das Badewasser

As investigations carried out in an immersion basin of a sauna, with rinsed-off sweat and in indoor and outdoor swimming-baths have shown, from the total of 702 ± 529 mg/urea released per bather there are released 37.06 ± 24.75 mg through the skin into water; hence a urine introduction of 30 … 35 ml per bather resulting. The urea concentration in the bathing water does not show any correlation with the NH⁺₄-concentration and the COD-Mn. Although urea-degrading bacteria are present with concentrations of up to 1 ± 10⁵ colonies/ml, there does not occur any enzymatic decomposition of urea in the bathing water. Nitrification was not detected in the bathing water, either. The use of urea as a hygienic quality criterion for bathing water is not regarded as necessary: the determination of the NH⁺₄-concentration suffices as an indicator of the pollution with faecal matter and the bound effective chlorine.     

Diefischereilichen Verhältnisse im Engadin,in den Seen und im Inn

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Die Entwicklung des Belebtschlammverfahrens in den Niederlanden

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Der Jahresrhythmus des Luftdrucks in den Alpen

Summary By means of charts of distribution of amplitude and phase of the first term of harmonic series of the annual pressure variation in the Alps it is shown that it represents a wave which by increasing her amplitude progresses from the outside to the central part of the mountains. Essentially it illustrates the annual process of heating. In renewing earlier studies byConrad about the average change of the annual pressure variation with height illustrated by harmonic dial the altitude of reversing of the sign of this variation is found surprisingly smaller in the Alps than in other regions of the earth probably on account of the maritime influence.     

Phytoplankton und Primärproduktion einiger ostschweizerischer Seen und des Bodensees

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Meereskundlich-chemische Untersuchungen mit Hilfe des Pulfrich-Photometers von Zeiss

Zusammenfassung Die bisherigen Methoden zur Bestimmung des Chlorophylls im Meerwasser benötigen zu ihrer Durchführung Wassermengen von einem bis zu einigen Litern. Sie sind infolgedessen zur Ausfühung serienmäßiger ozeanischer Messungen noch nicht voll geeignet. Durch Ausnutzung der intensiven Rotfluoreszenz des Chlorophylls und Benutzung kleinerer und engerer Kolorimeterröhren läßt es sich ermöglichen, den Wasserbedarf bis auf 100 ccm und weniger je Probe herabzudrücken und somit diesen Mangel zu beheben. Die für diesen Zweck geschaffene gleiche Arbeitsapparatur ermöglicht weiterhin, im Anschluß an die Chlorophyllbestimmung ohne wesentlich erhöhte Arbeitsbelastung die Bestimmung der Eigenfluoreszenz gleichfalls auf dem Wege der Mikromethodik an nur 1 ccm Meerwasser durchzuführen.

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Investigations in chemical oceanography carried out with the aid of the Pulfrich photometer

Summary The old method of determining the chlorophyll content of sea water required a comparatively great quantity of sea water (one or severel litres) and, hence, was not suitable in case of serial measurements. The utilization of the intensive red fluorescence of chlorophyll and the use of small and narrow colorimeter tubes render it possible to minimize the required quantity of water to 100 ccm and less per sample. The apparatus which was especially constructed for this purpose being fit for the determination of both the chlorophyll content and the proper fluorescence, the latter can be easily determined immediately after the determination of the chlorophyll content by means of the micro-method from only 1 ccm of sea water.

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Investigations chimiques dans le domaine océanographique à l'aide du photomètre de PulfrichVII^e communication. Les micro déterminations de la teneur en chlorophylle et de la fluorescence propre de l'eau de mer

Résumé La quantité minimale nécessaire pour déterminer la teneur en chlorophylle selon la méthode en usage jusqu' à présent se montait d'un à plusieurs litres; à cause de cela cette méthode n'était pas convenable pour des mensurations en séries. En se servant de l'intensive fluorescence rouge de la chlorophylle et en employant un petit tube étroit à colorimètre il est possible de limiter la quantité d'eau à 100 ccm et moins par échantillon. En outre, on peut se servir du même appareil pour déterminer la fluorescence propre selon la nouvelle méthode. Pour cette détermination qui peut être effectué sans peine immédiatement après celle de la chlorophylle on a besoin de seulement 1 ccm d'eau de mer.

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Die sechs vorhergehenden Mitteilungen sind in den Annalen der Hydrographie und maritimen Meteorologie erschienen, und zwar I:59, 1931, 313; II:61, 1933, 124; III:62, 1934, 65; IV:63, 1935, 58: V:63, 1935, 195; VI:65, 1937, 276.