Shredder fecal pellets as stores of allochthonous organic matter in streams

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 521-528

  Joyce, Paul ^a   Wotton, Roger S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chalk streams; Fecal pellets; Gammarus pulex; Hyporheic; Organic matter; Shredders

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ALLOCHTHON; AMPHIPOD; AUTOCHTHON; AUTUMN; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; CLIMBING PLANT; DETRITIVORY; FECAL PELLET; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HERB; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MICROORGANISM; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); VEGETATION COVER; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS PULEX; INVERTEBRATA; NASTURTIUM OFFICINALE; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS;

EID: 51549121984     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/07-102.1     Document Type: Article

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