Consumer return chronology alters recovery trajectory of stream ecosystem structure and function following drought

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1048-1062

  Murdock, Justin N ^a,b   Gido, Keith B ^a   Dodds, Walter K ^a   Bertrand, Katie N ^c   Whiles, Matt R ^d  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Functional group; Grazer; Kansas; Konza prairie biological station; Nonequilibrium; Succession; USA

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; CRAYFISH; CYPRINID; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRAZING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; PRAIRIE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STREAM; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; DROUGHT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; DROUGHTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; KANSAS; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ASTACOIDEA; CYPRINIDAE; PHOXINUS ERYTHROGASTER;

EID: 77951193883     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2168.1     Document Type: Article

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