Food web structure of Poyang Lake during the dry season by stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes analysis

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1181-1188

  Wang, Yu Yu ^a,b   Yu, Xiu Bo ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   Xu, Jun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic activity; Poyang lake; 13c; 15N; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DRY SEASON; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE;

EID: 64349118641     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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