Suspension feeders transform massive amounts of seston in large northern rivers

Oikos

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 35-43

  Malmqvist, Björn ^a   Wotton, Roger S ^c   Zhang, Yixin ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECAL PELLET; FILTER FEEDING; FLY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SESTON;

DIPTERA; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 0035137278     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.920105.x     Document Type: Article

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