Deposit-feeding sea cucumbers enhance mineralization and nutrient cycling in organically-enriched coastal sediments
Deposit-feeding sea cucumbers enhance mineralization and nutrient cycling in organically-enriched coastal sediments
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2012
Authors
Mactavish, T
Stenton-Dozey, J
Vopel, K
Savage, C
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PLoS
Abstract
Bioturbators affect multiple biogeochemical interactions and have been suggested as suitable candidates to mitigate organic matter loading in marine sediments. However, predicting the effects of bioturbators at an ecosystem level can be difficult due to their complex positive and negative interactions with the microbial community.
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Ammonia , Animals , Biomass , Ecosystem , Geologic sediments , Nitrates , Oxygen , Phosphorus , Sea cucumbers , Seawater
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PLoS ONE 7(11): e50031. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050031
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2012 MacTavish et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.