Loss of rare fish species from tropical floodplain food webs affects community structure and ecosystem multifunctionality in a mesocosm experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pendleton, Richard M ^a   Hoeinghaus, David J ^a   Gomes, Luiz C ^b   Agostinho, Angelo A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM MULTIFUNCTIONALITY; FISH; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); RARE SPECIES; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SECONDARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FISHES; FLOODS; FOOD CHAIN; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84897129918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084568     Document Type: Article

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