Search for dissertations about: "Benthic food-web"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words Benthic food-web.
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1. Ecology across Boundaries : Food web coupling among and within ecosystems
Abstract : Cross-boundary movements of energy and material are ubiquitous. Freshwater ecosystems receive nutrients, dissolved, and particulate organic matter from adjacent terrestrial ecosystems, whereas terrestrial ecosystems mainly receive prey organisms and detritus deposited by physical processes such as floods from freshwater ecosystems. READ MORE
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2. Food web structures and carbon transfer efficiencies in a brackish water ecosystem
Abstract : Two differently structured food webs can be distinguished in the pelagic habitat of aquatic systems; the classical one (autotrophic) with phytoplankton as a base and the microbial food web (heterotrophic) with bacteria as a base. Energy (produced at the basal trophic level) reaches higher trophic levels, i.e. READ MORE
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3. Baltic Sea food web dynamics and response to environmental change
Abstract : The Baltic Sea ecosystem is subject to a combination of external pressures such as fishery, changing climate and land-based nutrient inputs. In combination with internal food web mechanisms these external forces can lead to changes in the food web structure and function. READ MORE
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4. Determining food web transfer of radionuclides in marine benthic ecosystems
Abstract : Food web interactions are vital in any functioning ecosystem and facilitate transfer of energy and nutrients between trophic levels. Unfortunately, they also facilitate transfer of contaminants such as anthropogenic radionuclides found in effluents from nuclear power plants (NPPs). READ MORE
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5. Effects of warming and browning on benthic and pelagic ecosystem components in shallow lakes
Abstract : The majority of lakes on Earth are shallow, unproductive and located at high latitudes. These lakes are experiencing big changes due to climate change, where two environmental drivers operate simultaneously, browning and warming. How they affect lake ecosystems is not well understood. READ MORE