Food web reliance on allochthonous carbon in two high mountain lakes with contrasting catchments: A stable isotope approach

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2640-2648

  Pulido Villena, Elvira ^a,c   Reche, Isabel ^a,b   Morales Baquero, Rafael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIERRA NEVADA [BETIC CORDILLERA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

COPEPODA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULICARIA; MIXODIAPTOMUS LACINIATUS;

EID: 31144471831     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f05-169     Document Type: Article

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