Seasonal reassembly of a river food web: Floods, droughts, and impacts of fish

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 263-282

  Power, Mary E ^a   Parker, Michael S ^b   Dietrich, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal blooms; Cladophora glomerata; Context dependency; Effect sizes; Flood scour; Food chain length; Interaction strength; Lavinia (Hesperoleucas) symmetricus; Long term studies; Mediterranean hydrologie regimes; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Predator impacts

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMASS; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; FLOOD; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; RIVER WATER; SEASONALITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CLADOPHORA; CLADOPHORA GLOMERATA; CYANOBACTERIA; DICOSMOECUS; DICOSMOECUS GILVIPES; HESPEROLEUCUS SYMMETRICUS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LAVINIA; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; TRICHOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849310030     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0902.1     Document Type: Article

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