Light-mediated thresholds in stream-water nutrient composition in a river network

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 140-150

  Finlay, Jacques C ^a   Hood, James M ^a   Limm, Michael P ^a,b   Power, Mary E ^a,b   Schade, John D ^c   Welter, Jill R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angelo Coast Range Reserve; Autotrophy; California; Geomorphology; Heterotrophy; Lemental stoichiometry; N fixation; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Primary production; South Fork Eel River watershed; Stream network; USA

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL COMMUNITY; AUTOTROPHY; BASEFLOW; BENTHOS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEADWATER; HETEROTROPHY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NATURE RESERVE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RIVER SYSTEM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOICHIOMETRY; STREAMWATER; WATER COLUMN; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; RIVER; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; RIVERS; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

EID: 79955529529     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2243.1     Document Type: Article

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