Contributions of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) to nutrient cycling in an urban river: filtration, recycling, storage, and removal
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DOI: 10.1007/s10533-017-0376-z
Abstract: Consumers contribute to nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems by nutrient retention in tissues, metabolic transformations and excretion, and promoting microbial processes that remove nutrients (i.e., nitrogen (N) loss via denitrification). Freshwater mussels (Unionidae) form dense… read more here.
Keywords: freshwater mussels; mussels unionidae; river; nutrient cycling ... See more keywords