Rivers and Streams: Ecosystem Dynamics and Integrating Paradigms

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3084-3095

  Cummins, K W ^a   Wilzbach, M A ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood pulse; Invertebrate functional feeding groups; Nutrient spiraling; Riparian; River continuum; Stream ecosystem paradigms; Stream energetics; Stream food webs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249148497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00354-2     Document Type: Chapter

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