Salmon species, density and watershed size predict magnitude of marine enrichment in riparian food webs

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1307-1318

  Hocking, Morgan D ^a,b   Reimchen, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SALMONID; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATERSHED;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; URSUS;

EID: 69549116370     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17302.x     Document Type: Article

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