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Minute material moving in water including living organisms and non-living matter.

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  • To address how mussel tissue C: N: P stoichiometry vary in relation to seston nutrient composition and Chl
  • Particulate C and particulate N of seston were measured using the same methods as for tissue nutrient analyses.
  • Dreissena are not restricted in the range of their body mass stoichiometry and may not be P limited if they graze on seston (supporting our second hypothesis).
  • Our results also revealed an equal coefficient of variation of C: N: P ratio and lack of imbalance in C: P and N: P ratios between seston and mussels, suggesting that
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