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Animal-mediated elemental cycling across time, space, and animal functional traits

Year: 2024, 2024

Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

Name(s): Creator (cre): Klemet-N'Guessan, Sandra, Thesis advisor (ths): Xenopoulos, Marguerite A., Degree committee member (dgc): Paterson, Michael J., Degree committee member (dgc): Fox, Michael G., Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University

Abstract: <p>Animals are essential to freshwater biogeochemistry and productivity. Through their excretion, aquatic consumers release bioavailable nutrients and carbon that can vary with animal taxonomic rank, trophic position, and abiotic factors such as light and nutrient supply. In fresh waters, light and nutrient supply is often modulated by dissolved organic matter (DOM), a "murky"… more

Full Text: Animal-mediated elemental cycling across time, space, and animal functional traits A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and …