Experimental dietary manipulations and concurrent use of assimilation-based analyses for elucidation of consumer-resource relationships in tropical streams

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 963-970

  Lau, Danny C P ^a   Leung, Kenneth M Y ^a,b   Dudgeon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Carbon:nitrogen ratio; Cyanobacteria; Diatoms; Gastropod; Hong Kong

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DIET; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DIATOM; EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; GASTROPOD; HOMEOSTASIS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAF LITTER; SNAIL; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOICHIOMETRY; STREAM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BROTIA HAINANENSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; GASTROPODA; PACHYCHILIDAE;

EID: 57049159920     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF07213     Document Type: Article

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