Carbon Cycling in Floodplain Ecosystems: Out-Gassing and Photosynthesis Transmit Soil δ13C Gradient Through Stream Food Webs

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 583-597

  Gray, Duncan P ^a   Harding, Jon S ^a   Elberling, Bo ^b   Horton, Travis ^a   Clough, Tim J ^c   Winterbourn, Mike J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

biogeochemistry; braided river; carbon; connectivity; food web; New Zealand; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BRAIDED RIVER; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONNECTIVITY; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPRING WATER; STREAM; TROPHIC LEVEL;

NEW ZEALAND;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955807811     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9430-1     Document Type: Article

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