Macroconsumers are more important than specialist macroinvertebrate shredders in leaf processing in urban forest streams of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 638, Issue , 2010, Pages 55-66

  Moulton, Timothy P ^a   Magalhães Fraga, Sandra A P ^b   Brito, Ernesto Fuentes ^a   Barbosa, Francisco A ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Crabs; Decomposition; Exclusion experiment; Fish; Macrobrachium potiuna; Macrofauna; Macroinvertebrates; Shredders; Tadpoles

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC FOREST; BIOTURBATION; BROKEN DOWN; COARSE PARTICULATE MATTER; COARSE PARTICULATES; CRABS; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXPONENTIAL RATES; GENERAL TRENDS; LEAF PROCESSING; MACROFAUNA; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MESH SIZE; NEOTROPICAL STREAM; POSITIVE EFFECTS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; TIME INTERVAL; URBAN FORESTS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; FISH; MEATS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FORESTRY;

BIOTURBATION; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; CRAB; CRUSTACEAN; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FISH; FLY; LEAF AREA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; OMNIVORY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; DECAY; EXPERIMENTATION; FISHES; FORESTRY; MEAT; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SHREDDERS;

BRAZIL; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL];

CHIRONOMIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MACROBRACHIUM POTIUNA; STENOCHIRONOMUS;

EID: 74249090391     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-0009-1     Document Type: Article

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