Spatial and temporal variability in the lower food web of the tidal freshwater Hudson River

Estuaries

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 866-873

  Findlay, Stuart ^a   Pace, Michael ^a   Fischer, David ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

DETRITUS; ECOSYSTEM METABOLISM; FOOD WEB; ORGANIC CARBON; SECONDARY PRODUCTION;

USA, NEW YORK, HUDSON RIVER;

EID: 0030299136     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352303     Document Type: Article

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