Stream permanence influences microalgal food availability to grazing tadpoles in arid-zone springs

Oecologia

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 340-352

  Peterson, Christopher G ^a   Boulton, Andrew J ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid zone stream; Chloroplast condition; Epilithic algae; Grazing; Gut passage

Indexed keywords

ALGA; FOOD SUPPLY; GRAZING; STREAM;

LIMNODYNASTES TASMANIENSIS;

EID: 0033026155     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050735     Document Type: Article

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