Top-down control in a detritus-based food web: Fish, shredders, and leaf breakdown

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 307-315

  Ruetz III, Carl R ^a,b   Newman, Raymond M ^a   Vondracek, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detritivores; Invertebrates; Litter processing; Streams; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DETRITIVORY; DETRITUS; FISH; FOOD WEB; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE;

UNITED STATES;

HESPEROPHYLAX; INVERTEBRATA; LIMNEPHILIDAE; SALIX; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0036940561     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0953-1     Document Type: Article

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