Numerical and per capita responses to species loss: Mechanisms maintaining ecosystem function in a community of stream insect detritivores

Oikos

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 221-234

  Ruesink, Jennifer L ^a,b   Srivastava, Diane S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LEAF LITTER; POPULATION DECLINE; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; STREAM;

LEPIDOSTOMA UNICOLOR; PTERONARCYS CALIFORNICA;

EID: 0034979553     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.930206.x     Document Type: Article

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