Stream food web responses to a large omnivorous invader, Orconectes rusticus (Decapoda, Cambaridae)

Crustaceana

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 641-657

  Bobeldyk, Angela M ^a   Lamberti, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CRAYFISH; FOOD WEB; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; TROPHIC LEVEL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952667664     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: 15685403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/001121610X491031     Document Type: Article

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