Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Despite being an essential nutrient at trace levels, selenium can be devastating to aquatic environments when present in excess. There is no apparent correlation between total aqueous selenium concentrations and observed toxic effects because bioaccumulation varies over several orders of magnitude depending on the chemical species of selenium and the biological species present in the… more Full Text: IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF ORGANIC SELENIUM SPECIES PRODUCED BY MICROBIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY IN FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of …