A Quantitative Food Web Model for the Macroinvertebrate Community of a Northern German Lowland Stream

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 433-452

  Poepperl, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectance; Consumption; Mass balance; Network analysis; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; FOOD WEB; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

GERMANY;

ANODONTA; BIVALVIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; DREISSENIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PSEUDANODONTA;

EID: 0141502210     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200310666     Document Type: Article

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