Disturbance, resource supply, and food-web architecture in streams

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 200-209

  Townsend, Colin R ^a   Thompson, Ross M ^a   McIntosh, Angus R ^a,b   Kilroy, Cathy ^c   Edwards, Eric ^a,d   Scarsbrook, Mike R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Connectance; Detritus; Disturbance; Epilithon; Fish; Food webs; Food chain length; Macroinvertebrates; Productivity; Streams

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; EPILITHON;

EID: 0001218793     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00039.x     Document Type: Article

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