Temporal food web variability in an upper Missouri River backwater: Energy origination points and transfer mechanisms

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 154-167

  Fisher, S J ^a,b   Brown, M L ^a   Willis, D W ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Backwater; Energy; Energy transfer; Food webs; Missouri River; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BACKWATER; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

UNITED STATES;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CORIXIDAE;

EID: 0034762301     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0633.2001.100305.x     Document Type: Article

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