Processing of native and exotic leaf litter in two Idaho (U.S.A.) streams

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 400, Issue , 1999, Pages 123-128

  Royer, Todd V ^a   Monaghan, Michael T ^b   Minshall, G Wayne ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C N ratios; Decomposition; Exotic species; Leaf litter; Stream ecology

Indexed keywords

LEAF LITTER; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; STREAM;

UNITED STATES;

CORNUS; ELAEAGNUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS; RIPARIA;

EID: 0033560466     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003703130930     Document Type: Article

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