Title	The Role of Elevated Dissolved versus Foliar Nitrogen on Leaf Litter Processing in Stream Ecosystems
Author	Li, Jennifer J
Advisors	Swan, Christopher M
Program	Geography and Environmental Systems
Document Type	thesis
Sponsors	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Date Issued	2011-01-01
Abstract	Nutrient pollution can enrich waterways and riparian vegetation via assimilation and transformation into new biomass. Since leaf litter is the primary energy source to shaded streams and microbial immobilization of nutrients can increase its quality as a food resource, alterations could change ecosystem processing of detritus. My goal was to understand the relative importance of these nutrient sources to decomposition and the interactive role macroinvertebrates play in litter breakdown. I experimentally enriched Reed Canary grass (<italic>Phalaris arundinacea
Identifier	10456
Format	application:pdf
Language	en
Collection	UMBC Theses and Dissertations.
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