Impacts of agricultural land use on ecosystem structure and whole-stream metabolism of tropical Cerrado streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2069-2085

  Gücker, Björn ^a   BoËchat, Iola G ^b   Giani, Alessandra ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Pasture; Primary production; Respiration; Stream ecosystem functioning; Stream hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349145342     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02069.x     Document Type: Article

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