Macroinvertebrate production and food web energetics in an industrially contaminated stream

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 740-753

  Runck, Clay ^a,b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Energy flow; Food quality; Food web; Mercury; Nutrient enrichment; Periphyton; Secondary production; Streams; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; MERCURY;

ENERGETICS; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD WEB; INSECT; LARVA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PERIPHYTON; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; STREAM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INSECT; METABOLISM; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALGAE, GREEN; ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INSECTS; MERCURY; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CRICOTOPUS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOCLADIINAE;

EID: 34247211757     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-1026     Document Type: Article

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