Differences in patches of retention among leaves, woods and small litter particles in a headwater stream: The importance of particle morphology

Limnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-55

  Kobayashi, Sohei ^a,b   Kagaya, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leaf size; Litter patches; Particle morphology; Plant litter; Pools; Retention; Riffles

Indexed keywords

HEADWATER; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF LITTER; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PATCH SIZE; RETENTION; RIFFLE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; STREAM; WOODY DEBRIS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 41549103636     PISSN: 14398621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10201-007-0235-z     Document Type: Article

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