Meiofauna versus macrofauna: Secondary production of invertebrates in a lowland chalk stream

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 450-456

  Tod, S P ^a   Schmid Araya, J M ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CHALK; GRAVEL BED STREAM; INVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MEIOFAUNA; METAZOAN; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; TAXONOMY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAMBOURN RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST BERKSHIRE; WESTERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA;

EID: 63549108070     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.2.0450     Document Type: Article

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