Nutrient dependent effects of consumer identity and diversity on freshwater ecosystem function

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 148-158

  Dzialowski, Andrew R ^a,b   Smith, Val H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementary resource use; Context dependent; Ecosystem function

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 37149016327     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01883.x     Document Type: Article

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