Biotic and abiotic controls on the ecosystem significance of consumer excretion in two contrasting tropical streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2047-2061

  Benstead, Jonathan P ^a   Cross, Wyatt F ^b,f   March, James G ^c   Mcdowell, William H ^d   Ramírez, Alonso ^e   Covich, Alan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^f MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer driven nutrient recycling; Ecological stoichiometry; El Yunque; Luquillo Experimental Forest; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ATYA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); XIPHOCARIS; XIPHOCARIS ELONGATA;

EID: 77956237421     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02461.x     Document Type: Article

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