Food web dynamics in yellowstone streams: Shifts in the trophic basis of a stream food web after wildfire disturbance

After the Fires The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 189-199

  Mihuc, Timothy B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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