Predictable changes in trophic community structure along a spatial disturbance gradient in streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2184-2195

  Lepori, Fabio ^a   Malmqvist, Björn ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonization; Consumer control; Floods; Resource control; Succession

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 35248821722     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01846.x     Document Type: Article

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