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SUBMITTER: Saleem M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4810830 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saleem Muhammad M Fetzer Ingo I Harms Hauke H Chatzinotas Antonis A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160201 1825
Loading of water bodies with dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and dissolved total nitrogen (DTN) affects their integrity and functioning. Microbial interactions mitigate the negative effects of high nutrient loads in these ecosystems. Despite numerous studies on how biodiversity mediates ecosystem functions, whether and how diversity and complexity of microbial food webs (horizontal, vertical) and the underlying ecological mechanisms influence nutrient removal has barely been investigated. Using m ...[more]