Assessing long-term changes in chironomid assemblages linked to past fluctuations in Leach’s Storm-Petrel populations on islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean

• Main Author: Lim, Joeline
• Other Authors: Smol, John, Biology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Paleolimnology; Seabird; Conservation; Population dynamics; Chitin degradation; Chironomus spp; Guano; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/27803

Nutrient loading is an important factor that can indirectly deplete dissolved oxygen concentrations in lakes. In environments where seabirds nest and breed, guano is a prominent source of nutrients that can eutrophy waterbodies. Such external nutrient inputs may deplete bottom-water oxygen, resultin...