Toward quantifying the relative importance of invertebrate consumption and bioturbation in puerto rican streams

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 477-484

  Cross, Wyatt F ^a,e   Ramirez A ^b   Santana, A ^c   Santiago, L Silvestrini ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA   (Puerto Rico)

^d Universidad Interamericana   (Puerto Rico)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atyidae; Bioenergetics; Caribbean; Decapoda; Detritus; Ecosystem engineer; Freshwater shrimps; Island; Mayflies; Tropical stream

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOENERGETICS; BIOTURBATION; BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; DETRITUS; DOMINANCE; ELEVATION; INVERTEBRATE; ISLAND; MAYFLY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STORM; STREAM;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

ANIMALIA; ATYA; ATYIDAE (CRUSTACEANS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; XIPHOCARIS ELONGATA;

EID: 55349095964     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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