Leaf-litter colonisation and breakdown in relation to stream typology: Insights from Mediterranean low-order streams

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2594-2608

  Jesus Casas J ^a,b   Gessner, Mark O ^c,d,e   López, Dalila ^a   Descals, Enrique ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b Centro Andaluz de Evaluaciõn y Seguimiento Del Cambio Global   (Spain)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquatic hyphomycetes; Leaf decomposition; Shredders; Stream bioassessment; Stream typology

Indexed keywords

ALNUS; FUNGI; GASTROPODA; HYPHOMYCETES; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOPSIS PRAEMORSA;

EID: 80054048798     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02686.x     Document Type: Article

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