Massive die-offs of freshwater bivalves as resource pulses

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-112

  Sousa, Ronaldo ^a,b   Varandas, Simone ^c   Cortes, Rui ^c   Teixeira, Amílcar ^d   Lopes Lima, Manuel ^b,e   MacHado, Jorge ^b,e   Guilhermino, Lúcia ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Corbicula fluminea; Ecosystem functioning; Floods; Resource pulses; Unionoid mussels

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIVALVE; CARRION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RELOCATION; RIVER BANK; RIVER BED; RIVER FLOW;

PORTUGAL;

ANODONTA; ANODONTA ANATINA; BIVALVIA; CORBICULA; CORBICULA FLUMINEA; DELPHINUS; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; MARGARITIFERA MARGARITIFERA; POTOMIDA LITTORALIS; UNIO; UNIONOIDA;

EID: 84860783050     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2012003     Document Type: Article

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