Litter decomposition across multiple spatial scales in stream networks

Oecologia

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 343-351

  Tiegs, Scott D ^a,b   Akinwole, Philips O ^a,c   Gessner, Mark O ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Ecosystem process; Hierarchy; Leaf breakdown; River; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RIVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RIVER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; PLANT LEAVES; RIVERS;

EID: 70349100323     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1386-x     Document Type: Article

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