Organic matter sources and size structuring in stream invertebrate food webs across a tropical to temperate gradient

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1509-1521

  Jardine, Timothy D ^a,b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

Author keywords

Leaf litter; Omnivorous crustaceans; Periphyton; Stable isotopes; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

ATYIDAE (CRUSTACEANS); CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PALAEMONIDAE;

EID: 84901819411     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12362     Document Type: Article

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