Before revision: The panel on the right shows how light, temperature, and nutrients tend to change with depth for a stratified lake, which in turn results in variation in metabolic rates vertically within a lake.|center Free-water methods Measurement of diel changes in dissolved gases within the lake, also known as the “ free-water ” method, has quickly become the most common method of estimating lake metabolism since the wide adoption of autonomous sensors used to measure dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide in water.
After revision: The panel on the right shows how light, temperature, and nutrients tend to change with depth for a stratified lake, which in turn results in variation in metabolic rates vertically within a lake.|center Free-water methods Measurement of diel changes in dissolved gases within the lake, also known as the " free-water " method, has quickly become the most common method of estimating lake metabolism since the wide adoption of autonomous sensors used to measure dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide in water.