Dependence of stream predators on terrestrial prey fluxes: Food web responses to subsidized predation

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Atlas, William I ^a   Palen, Wendy J ^a   Courcelles, Danielle M ^a   Munshaw, Robin G ^a   Monteith, Zachary L ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

California; Dicamptodon tenebrosus; Eel river; Experimental ecology; Food webs; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Resource subsidies; Stream ecosystems; Terrestrial aquatic linkages; Trophic cascades; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896380904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00366.1     Document Type: Article

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