Food webs in tropical Australian streams: Shredders are not scarce

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 748-769

  Cheshire, Kim ^a   Boyero, Luz ^a   Pearson, Richard G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional feeding groups; Gut content analysis; Latitude; Macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MACROINVERTEBRATE; STREAM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 18044391883     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01355.x     Document Type: Article

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