Do small-scale exclosure/enclosure experiments predict the effects of large-scale extirpation of freshwater migratory fauna?

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 709-717

  Greathouse, Effie A ^a,b   Pringle, Catherine M ^a   McDowell, William H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Freshwater shrimps; Puerto Rico; Spatial scales; Temporal scales; Tropical stream

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PALAEMONIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUERTO RICO; RIVER; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; PALAEMONIDAE; PUERTO RICO; RIVERS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

ALGAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748936533     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0472-6     Document Type: Article

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