Trophic relationships in a tropical stream food web assessed by stable isotope analysis

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1028-1041

  Coat, Sophie ^a   Monti, Dominique ^a   Bouchon, Claude ^a   Lepoint, Gilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diadromous species; Food web; Freshwater fauna; Stable isotopes; Tropical stream

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PISCES;

EID: 64149104219     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02149.x     Document Type: Article

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