Project Title: Benthic biogeochemical responses to changing estuary trophic state and nutrient availability: A paired field and mesocosm experiment approach.
Date: 2015
Principal Investigator(s): Spivak, A. C. (2015).
Abstract: To test how benthic biogeochemistry responds to changing nutrient availability and estuary trophic state, I conducted mesocosm and field experiments. In the mesocosm experiment, sediment cores from eutrophic and oligotrophic estuaries were incubated under high or low nutrient levels. Net production rates were greater in eutrophic vs. oligotrophic cores while respiration rates were greater in high nutrient treatments, indicating that sediment metabolism was affected by trophic history and nutrient availability. Read full text…Limnology and Oceanography, 60(1), 3-21. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.10001/full
