Effects of flooding on avian top-predators and their invertebrate prey in a monsoonal Taiwan stream

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1335-1344

  Chiu, Ming Chih ^a   Kuo, Mei Hwa ^a   Sun, Yuan Hsun ^b   Hong, Shiao Yu ^b   Kuo, Hih Chuan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Brown dipper; Floods; Flow regime; Mountain streams

Indexed keywords

AVES; CINCLIDAE; CINCLUS PALLASII; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; TACHIA;

EID: 44649156329     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.01968.x     Document Type: Article

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