Landscape variation in C sources of scraping primary consumers in streams

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 787-799

  McNeely, Camille ^a,b   Clinton, Sandra M ^c   Erbe, Jacqueline M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon source; Diet; Drainage area; Eel River drainage; Epilithon; Fine particulate organic matter; Food web; Glossosoma; Heptageniidae; Scrapers; Stable carbon isotopes

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIOFILM; CADDISFLY; CARBON CYCLE; DIET; DRAINAGE; ENERGY FLOW; EPILITHON; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; HETEROTROPHY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LARVA; MAYFLY; MICROORGANISM; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; STREAM;

CALIFORNIA; EEL RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ARTHROPODA; EPHEMEROPTERA; GLOSSOSOMA; HEPTAGENIIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33845340795     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/0887-3593(2006)025[0787:LVICSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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