Resource-consumer relationships and baseline stable isotopic signatures of food webs in isolated wetlands

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1213-1224

  Opsahl, Stephen P ^a   Golladay, Stephen W ^a   Smith, Lora L ^a   Allums, Stephanie E ^a  

^a JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal resources; Community stable isotope profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873722235     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0108-9     Document Type: Article

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