Essays about: "Adrian Grieve"

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  1. 1. Effects of diet quality and quantity on resource use, growth and fatty-acid composition of a benthic generalist consumer.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

    Author : Adrian Grieve; [2017]
    Keywords : Food quality; allochthonous; autochthonous; consumer diet; somatic growth; fatty acids; stable isotopes.;

    Abstract : Variation in quality and quantity of food resources can affect consumer productivity responses throughout the food chain, particularly the efficiency at which basal resources are converted to consumer biomass. I performed a manipulative feeding experiment to investigate the somatic growth and fatty acid incorporation in the benthic generalist isopod Asellus aquaticus, in response to differing ratios of autochthonous (high quality algae) to allochthonous (low quality leaf litter) foods. READ MORE