Stable isotope analysis indicates microalgae as the predominant food source of fauna in a coastal forest stream, south-east Brazil

Austral Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 623-633

  Brito, Ernesto Fuentes ^a   Moulton, Timothy P ^a   De Souza, Marcelo L ^a   Bunn, Stuart E ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloeodes; Food webs; Macrobrachium; Periphyton; Potimirim; Stream fauna; Tropical streams

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DIET; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANGROVE; METAZOAN; MICROALGA; RAINFOREST; SEAGRASS; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAM;

BRAZIL; ILHA GRANDE; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BAETIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EMBRYOPHYTA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MACROBRACHIUM OLFERSII; METAZOA; PALAEMONIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 33746216807     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01610.x     Document Type: Article

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