Measuring changes in consumer resource availability to riverine pulsing in breton sound, Louisiana, USA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Piazza, Bryan P ^a,b   Peyre, Megan K ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ESTUARY; FOOD WEB; HABITAT; NEKTON; RATING SCALE; SALINITY; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; PREDATION; RIVER;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD CHAIN; LOUISIANA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RIVERS;

EID: 84861594210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037536     Document Type: Article

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