Quantitative Links Between Pacific Salmon and Stream Periphyton

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1020-1034

  Verspoor, Jan J ^a   Braun, Douglas C ^a   Reynolds, John D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aquatic conservation; ecosystem engineer; ecosystem based management; food web; marine derived nutrients; nutrient pulse; resource subsidy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PERIPHYTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SPAWNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 77957755005     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9371-0     Document Type: Article

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