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SUBMITTER: Cozzoli F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5832813 | biostudies-other | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cozzoli Francesco F Bouma Tjeerd J TJ Ottolander Pauline P Lluch Maria Salvador MS Ysebaert Tom T Herman Peter M J PMJ
Scientific reports 20180301 1
We propose an empirical framework to scale the effects of bioturbation on sediment resuspension to population bioturbation activity, approximated as population metabolic rate. Individual metabolic rates have been estimated as functions of body size and extrapolated to population level. We used experimental flumes to test this approach across different types of marine, soft-sediment bioturbators. We observed that a large part of the variance in biota-mediated sediment resuspension can be explaine ...[more]