Leah Domine
Clinical Faculty
Biology
Biochemistry
Professional Interests
- Role of shallow lakes in regional and global carbon cycling.
- The biotic and abiotic controls on the metabolic balance of prairie pothole shallow lakes.
- Decomposition of plants and algae in aquatic environments, and how this relates to carbon burial rate in lake sediments.
- Physical and chemical characteristics of shallow lakes and how they differ spatially and temporally in macrophyte and algal-dominated wetlands.
- The influence of fathead minnows and invertebrates on carbon cycling and burial in shallow lakes.