Water temperature determines strength of top-down control in a stream food web

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1315-1322

  Kishi, Daisuke ^a,c   Murakami, Masashi ^a   Nakano, Shigeru ^b   Maekawa, Koji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Freshwater Fish and Aquatic Environments   (Japan)

Author keywords

Stream community; Top down control; Trophic cascades; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; WORLD;

TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 27744593715     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01404.x     Document Type: Article

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