The relationship of floods, drying, flow and light to primary production and producer biomass in a prairie stream

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 333, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 151-159

  Dodds, Walter K ^a   Hutson, Ruth E ^a   Eichem, Angela C ^a   Evans, Michelle A ^a   Gudder, Dolly A ^a   Fritz, Ken M ^a   Gray, Lawarence ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ottawa University Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

autochthonous; flood; light; periphyton; primary production; water velocity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FLOODING; LIGHT LEVEL; PRAIRIE STREAM; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; WATER VELOCITY;

USA, KANSAS, KONZA PRAIRIE RESEARCH NATURAL AREA;

EID: 0030303239     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00013429     Document Type: Article

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