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Research article
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23 Dec 2013
Research article |
| 23 Dec 2013
Explosive demographic expansion by dreissenid bivalves as a possible result of astronomical forcing
M. Harzhauser
Natural History Museum Vienna, Geological-Paleontological Department, Vienna, Austria
O. Mandic
Natural History Museum Vienna, Geological-Paleontological Department, Vienna, Austria
A. K. Kern
State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Rosenstein, Stuttgart, Germany
W. E. Piller
University of Graz, Institute of Earth Sciences, Graz, Austria
T. A. Neubauer
Natural History Museum Vienna, Geological-Paleontological Department, Vienna, Austria
C. Albrecht
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Giessen, Germany
T. Wilke
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Giessen, Germany
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Under UVR and stratification,the commensalistic algae-bacteria interaction was strengthened in the high-UVR lake, where excretion of organic carbon rates exceeded the bacterial carbon demand,but did not occur in the low-UVR lake.The greater UVR damage to algae and bacteria and the weakening of their commensalistic interaction found in the low-UVR lake indicates these lakes would be especially vulnerable to UVR. These results have implications for the C cycle in lakes of the Mediterranean region.
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