Macroinvertebrate food web structure in a floodplain lake of the Bolivian Amazon

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 663, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 135-153

  Molina, Carlos I ^a,b,c   Gibon, François Marie ^b,d   Oberdorff, Thierry ^d   Dominguez, Eduardo ^c   Pinto, Julio ^a   Marín, Rubén ^a   Roulet, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^b Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Energy sources; Floodplain lake; Freshwater macroinvertebrates; Stable isotopes; Trophic chains

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PERIPHYTON; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SESTON; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BENI RIVER; BOLIVIA;

EID: 79959807958     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0565-4     Document Type: Article

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