Optically determined sources of allochthonous organic matter and metabolic characterizations in a tropical oligotrophic river and associated lagoon

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 185-197

  Roelke, Daniel L ^a   Cotner, James B ^b   Montoya, José V ^a   Del Castillo, Carlos E ^c   Davis, Stephen E ^a   Snider, Jennifer A ^a   Gable, George M ^a   Winemiller, Kirk O ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption spectra; Allochthonous; Autochthonous; Carbon; Cinaruco River; Excitation emission matrices; Lagoon; Neotropical

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; AUTOCHTHON; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; FISH; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROLOGY; LAGOON; METABOLISM; NEOTROPICAL REGION; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RIVER;

CINARUCO RIVER; LLANOS; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

PISCES;

EID: 33645653765     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2006)25[185:ODSOAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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