Millennial-aged organic carbon subsidies to a modern river food web

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2385-2393

  Caraco, Nina ^a   Bauer, James E ^b   Cole, Jonathan J ^a   Petsch, Steven ^c   Raymond, Peter ^d  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

14C depletion; Allochthonous and autochthonous food sources; Ancient carbon; Deuterium; Food web subsidies; Hudson River, USA; IsoSource modeling; Natural abundance isotopes; River food webs; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLADOCERA; COPEPOD; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; TIME; UNITED STATES; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CLADOCERA; COPEPODA; FOOD CHAIN; NEW YORK; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; ZOOPLANKTON;

HUDSON RIVER; UNITED STATES;

CRUSTACEA;

EID: 77955500691     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0330.1     Document Type: Article

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