Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Nutrient Metabolism of an Aquatic Invertebrate and its Importance to Ecology

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Wagner, Nicole D., Thesis advisor (ths): Frost, Paul C, Degree committee member (dgc): Kapron, Carolyn, Degree committee member (dgc): Brunetti, Craig, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Aquatic consumers frequently face nutritional limitation, caused in part, by imbalances between the nutrients supplied by primary producers and the metabolic demands of the consumers. These nutritional imbalances alter many ecological processes including consumer life-history traits, population dynamics, and food web properties. Given the important ecological role of organismal nutrition… more

A mechanistic analysis of density dependence in algal population dynamics

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Borlestean, Adrian, Thesis advisor (ths): Murray, Dennis L, Degree committee member (dgc): Frost, Paul C, Degree committee member (dgc): Dorken, Marcel E, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Population density regulation is a fundamental principle in ecology, however there remain several unknowns regarding the functional expression of density dependence. One prominent view is that the patterns by which density dependence is expressed are largely fixed across a species, irrespective of environmental conditions. Our study investigated the expression of density dependence in… more