Experimental Mesocosm Kit for Investigating Aquatic Systems

David Herbst, UC Santa Barbra, has put together a field kit for investigating aquatic systems. The kit includes materials and equipment for setting up an array of 25 aerated ponds which can serve as replicates or trreatments in ecological experiments. Use of the ponds is described in a Journal of Phycology article : Herbst, D.B. & D.W. Blinn. 1998. Experimental mesocosm studies of salinity
effects on the benthic algal community of a saline lake. Journal of Phycology 34:772-778.