Hot spots of leaf breakdown within a headwater stream reach: Comparing breakdown rates among litter patch types with different macroinvertebrate assemblages

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 921-929

  Kobayashi, Sohei ^a,b   Kagaya, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leaf breakdown; Lepidostoma; Litter patches; Macroinvertebrate shredders; Reach scale

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; HEADWATER; LEAF; SEASONAL VARIATION;

LEPIDOSTOMA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 19744379115     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01371.x     Document Type: Article

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