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Person in a dark room using a camera pointed at a wall

Depending on the amount of oxygen in the samples the lids of the vials on the rollers facing the camera will look red or green in the dark lighting, Laan said. The levels of oxygen suggest how much respiration is happening in the river corridor. Credit: Grace Finnell-Gudwien

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