Flux of aquatic insect productivity to land: Comparison of lentic and lotic ecosystems

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2689-2699

  Gratton, Claudio ^a,b   Vander Zanden, M Jake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b 237 Russell Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthonous resources; Emerging aquatic insects; Food webs; Insect dispersal; Lake land linkages; Landscape ecology; Spatial subsidies

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISPERSAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD WEB; GRASSLAND; INSECT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 70349943733     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1546.1     Document Type: Article

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