Reciprocal subsidies in ponds: Does leaf input increase frog biomass export?

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1077-1087

  Earl, Julia E ^a   Semlitsch, Raymond D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthonous; Amphibians; Detritus; Primary productivity; Spatial subsidy

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DETRITUS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FROG; LEAF LITTER; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POND; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TOAD;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS; FELIDAE; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 84869089468     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2361-5     Document Type: Article

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