Bottom-up biodiversity effects increase resource subsidy flux between ecosystems

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2165-2174

  Allen, Daniel C ^a,b   Vaughn, Caryn C ^a   Kelly, Jeffrey F ^a   Cooper, Joshua T ^a   Engel, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic terrestrial linkages; Biodiversity and ecosystem function (BEF); Bivalvia: unionidae; Resource subsidies; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

ALGA; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIODIVERSITY; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INSECT; MESOCOSM; MUSSEL CULTURE; NITROGEN; SPECIES RICHNESS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC CASCADE;

EID: 84868252651     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1541.1     Document Type: Article

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