Assessing the functional importance of large-bodied invertebrates in experimental headwater streams

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 950-960

  Lecerf, Antoine ^a,b   Richardson, John S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CADDISFLY; DETRITUS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HEADWATER; STONEFLY; STREAM CHANNEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ALGAE; ALNUS; INVERTEBRATA; LIMNEPHILIDAE; PERLIDAE; PLECOPTERA; PTERONARCYS; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 79956291142     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18942.x     Document Type: Article

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