Comparing field and laboratory breakdown rates of coarse particulate organic matter: Sediment dynamics mask the impacts of dissolved nutrients on CPOM mass loss in streams

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 495-502

  Spänhoff, Bernd ^a   Augspurger, Clemens ^a   Küsel, Kirsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leaf litter; Net bags; Nutrient enrichment; Physical fragmentation; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUTROPHICATION; LEAF LITTER; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMWATER; WOODY DEBRIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; ILM RIVER; THURINGIA;

FAGUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 38549115100     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-007-0932-z     Document Type: Article

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