Ecosystem linkages between southern Appalachian headwater streams and their banks: Leaf litter breakdown and invertebrate assemblages

Ecosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 80-91

  Hutchens Jr , John J ^a,b   Wallace, J Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank; Community structure; Decomposition; Detritus; Heterogeneity; Macroinvertebrate; Moisture; Shredder; Stream; Upland

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF LITTER; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAM;

NORTH AMERICA;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; INVERTEBRATA; PLECOPTERA; RIPARIA; TALLAPERLA;

EID: 0036460560     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-001-0057-5     Document Type: Article

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