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Spatial Heterogeneity Of Nitrogen Cycling Within And Across Freshwater Ecosystems, Erin K. Eberhard
Spatial Heterogeneity Of Nitrogen Cycling Within And Across Freshwater Ecosystems, Erin K. Eberhard
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Dinitrogen (N2) fixation and denitrification are two nitrogen (N) cycling processes that despite differences in environmental requirements and constraints, co-occur in aquatic ecosystems. The overall goal of this dissertation was to evaluate how spatial heterogeneity of environmental variables 1) drive hot spots of N2 fixation, denitrification rates and gene abundances in streams, 2) facilitate co-occurrence of these processes across wetland – stream – lake interfaces, and 3) affect differences in microbial community composition in streams across U.S. ecoregions. We found hot spots of both processes within 7 stream reaches in Michigan and Idaho, but rates of N …