Food Web Structure in a Harsh Glacier-Fed River

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Clitherow, Leonie R ^a,b   Carrivick, Jonathan L ^a   Brown, Lee E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DETRITIVORE; DIATOM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; GLACIER; MICROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; RIVER; SIMULIIDAE; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC RANK; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ICE COVER; INVERTEBRATE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIAMESA; SIMULIIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; DIATOMS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; ICE COVER; INVERTEBRATES; RIVERS;

EID: 84876191932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060899     Document Type: Article

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