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Filtering by: Creator Mandt, Kathleen E. Degree Level Doctoral Subject Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)

Linking marine communities and ecosystems : invertebrates mediate nutrient availability in intertidal communities

Creator:

Bracken, Matthew E.

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While community ecologists have traditionally focused on local-scale processes, it has become apparent that a broader perspective, which explores the community-level ramifications of material fluxes within and between ecosystems, is necessary to effectively evaluate bottom-up influences on community structure and dynamics. In this dissertation, I employed ecosystem principles to understand...

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Dissertation

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Matthew E. Bracken for the
Carbon cycle variability during the last millennium and last deglaciation

Creator:

Bauska, Thomas K.

Abstract:

The exchange of carbon on earth is one of the fundamental processes that sustains life and regulates climate. Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the burning of fossil fuels and anthropogenic land conversion have altered the carbon cycle, increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to levels that are unprecedented...

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Dissertation

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