Untangling food-web structure in an ephemeral ecosystem

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1462-1473

  O'Neill, Brian J ^a   Thorp, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Branchiopoda; Food web complexity; Hydroperiod; Stable isotopes; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANOSTRACA; BIVALVIA; BOS; BRANCHIOPODA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84901841633     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12358     Document Type: Article

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