Food web structure, energetics, and importance of allochthonous carbon in a desert cavernous limnocrene: Devils Hole, Nevada

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-198

  Wilson, Kevin P ^a,b   Blinn, Dean W ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allochthonous carbon; Autochthonous carbon; Cyprinodon diabolis; Desert limnocrene; Devils Hole; Energetics; Nevada; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; CYPRINODON DIABOLIS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; STENELMIS; STENELMIS CALIDA;

EID: 34447542031     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/1527-0904(2007)67[185:FWSEAI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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