Assessing ecosystem functioning in streams affected by forest management: Increased leaf decomposition occurs without changes to the composition of benthic assemblages

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2086-2100

  McKie, Brendan G ^a   Malmqvist, Björn ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Land water interactions; Lotic; Microorganisms; Nutrient subsidy; Stream narrowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649227628     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02150.x     Document Type: Article

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