The role of timing, duration, and frequency of inundation in controlling leaf litter decomposition in a river-floodplain ecosystem (Tagliamento, northeastern Italy)

Oecologia

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 501-509

  Langhans, Simone D ^a   Tockner, Klement ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecosystem process; Flow regime; Hydrology; Leaf breakdown; Tagliamento

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

DECOMPOSITION; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROLOGY; LEAF LITTER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASPEN; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; INVERTEBRATE; ITALY; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATES; ITALY; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULUS; SEASONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGLIAMENTO RIVER;

FUNGI; POPULUS NIGRA;

EID: 33644599156     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0282-2     Document Type: Article

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