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Dr Peter Lavrentyev
Associate Professor


Office: ASEC 181
Email: peter3
Phone: 330 972 7922




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Research Interests

Marine and freshwater microbial food webs
Trophic cascades
Nutrient dynamics

Selected Publications

Gardner, W.S., Yang, L., Cotner, J.B., Johengen, T.H., and Lavrentyev, P.J. 2001. Nitrogen dynamics in sandy freshwater sediments (Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron). Journal of Great Lakes Research 27: 84-97

Lavrentyev, P.J., Gardner, W.S., and Yang, L. 2000. Effects of the zebra mussel on nitrogen cycling and the microbial community at the sediment-water interface. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 21: 187-194

Gardner, W.S., Lavrentyev, P.J., Bootsma, H.A., Cavaletto, J.F., and Cotner, J.B. 2000. Effects of natural light on nitrogen dynamics in diverse aquatic environments. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Ergebnisse Limnologie 27: 64-73

Gardner, W.S., Cavaletto, J.F., Bootsma, H.A., Lavrentyev, P.J. and. Troncone, F. 1998. Nitrogen cycling rates and light effects in tropical Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Limnology and Oceanography 43: 1814-1825

Lavrentyev, P.J., Bootsma, H.A., Johengen, T.H., Cavaletto, J.F and Gardner, W.S. 1998. Microbial plankton response to resource limitation: Insights from the community structure and seston stoichiometry in Florida Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 165: 45-57.
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