Food resources of shredders and other benthic macroinvertebrates in relation to shading conditions in tropical Hong Kong streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2011-2025

  Li, Aggie O Y ^a   Dudgeon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Allochthonous; Autochthonous; Food web; Gut contents; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249083897     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02022.x     Document Type: Article

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