Copper Contamination Affects the Biogeochemical Cycling of Nitrogen in Freshwater Sediment Mesocosms
Tomson Tomoiye,
Jianyin Huang,
Niklas J. Lehto
Abstract:Trace elements can have a wide variety of effects on microbial populations and their function in the aquatic environment. However, specific impacts on chemical and biological processes are often difficult to unravel, due to the wide variety of chemical species involved and interactions between different elemental cycles. A replicated mesocosm experiment was used to test the effect of increasing copper concentrations, i.e., from 6 mg kg−1 to 30 and 120 mg kg−1, on nitrogen cycling in a freshwater sediment under… Show more
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