Functional significance of crayfish in stream food webs: Roles of omnivory, substrate heterogeneity and sex

Oikos

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 512-522

  Usio, Nisikawa ^a,b   Townsend, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; HETEROGENEITY; OMNIVORY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SUBSTRATE; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ALGAE; ASTACOIDEA; CHIRONOMINAE; INVERTEBRATA; TANYPODINAE;

EID: 0036745264     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.980316.x     Document Type: Article

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