Comparison of leaf processing rates under different temperature regimes in three headwater streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 277-288

  Rowe, Jacquelyn M ^a   Meegan, Sean K ^a   Engstrom, Erik S ^a   Perry, Sue A ^a   Perry, William B ^a,b  

^a WV Coop Fish Wildl Res U   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; LEAF LITTER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SHREDDER; TEMPERATURE;

USA, (NORTHEAST), APPALACHIANS;

EID: 0030304863     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1996.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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