Are autochthonous foods more important than allochthonous resources to benthic consumers in tropical headwater streams?

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 426-439

  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

Energy flow; Fatty acids; Food web; Stable isotopes; Stoichiometry; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONY; AUTOCHTHONY; BENTHOS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; CYANOBACTERIUM; DETRITUS; DOMINANCE; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEB; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEADWATER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PERIPHYTON; SNAIL; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOICHIOMETRY; STREAM; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

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

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ATYIDAE (CRUSTACEANS); BACILLARIOPHYTA; BROTIA HAINANENSIS; CARIDINA CANTONENSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MACROBRACHIUM HAINANENSE; PACHYCHILIDAE; PALAEMONIDAE;

EID: 62149150049     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/07-079.1     Document Type: Article

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