Use of size spectra and empirical models to evaluate trophic relationships in streams

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 935-940

  Morin, Antoine ^a   Bourassa, Nathalie ^a   Cattaneo, Antonella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STREAM; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

CANADA; ONTARIO; QUEBEC;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034973495     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2001.46.4.0935     Document Type: Article

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