Resource limitation of autotrophs and heterotrophs in boreal forest headwater streams

• Main Author: Weaver, Sophie Alden
• Other Authors: Jones, Jeremy B., Leigh, Mary Beth, Ruess, Roger W.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: biofilms; Alaska; Interior Alaska; autotrophic bacteria; heterotrophic bacteria; stream ecology; Arctic; Bonanza; Fairbanks; Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed; Institute of Arctic Biology; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10913

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019 In stream biofilms, autotrophs and heterotrophs are responsible for the majority of in stream nutrient transformations. In boreal forest catchments, discontinuous permafrost can lead to variation in nutrient and energy resources, which can control c...