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Mud, Macrofauna and Microbes: An ode to benthic organism-abiotic interactions at varying scales
Citation:
Hamdan, L., J. Nestlerode, T. Grayson, AND E. Hinchey. Mud, Macrofauna and Microbes: An ode to benthic organism-abiotic interactions at varying scales. CERF 2015, Portland, OR, November 08 - 12, 2015.
Impact/Purpose:
This document describes a technical session that will be a collection of invited and contributed abstracts/presentations for the CERF'15 conference. The purpose of this session is to organize benthic-focused oral and poster presentations at this conference and initiate discussion of issues spanning multiple scales of benthic research.
Description:
Benthic environments are dynamic habitats, subject to variable sources and rates of sediment delivery, reworking from the abiotic and biotic processes, and complex biogeochemistry. These activities do not occur in a vacuum, and interact synergistically to influence food webs, biogeochemistry and water quality. Understanding these environments and impacts to them requires a holistic approach that reflects their complexity. This session will bring together scientists addressing all scales relevant to benthic food webs (micro and macro biota) and physicochemical environments (geology, biogeochemistry) to identify and fill knowledge gaps concerning ecology of benthic sediments in marine, estuarine and Great Lakes systems.