Biodiversity and ecosystem function in species-poor communities: Community structure and leaf litter breakdown in a Pacific island stream

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 454-465

  Benstead, Jonathan P ^a   March, James G ^b   Pringle, Catherine M ^c   Ewel, Katherine C ^d,f   Short, John W ^e,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g BioAccess Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeography; Decay; Decomposition; Electric exclusion; Insular; Leaf litter processing; Lotic; Macrobrachium; Pacific island; Tropical stream

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISLAND; LEAF LITTER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; KOSRAE; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELA RIVER;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EPHEMEROPTERA; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MACROBRACHIUM; PISCES; PLECOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 67650885620     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/07-081.1     Document Type: Article

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