Small but powerful: Top predator local extinction affects ecosystem structure and function in an intermittent stream

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Rodríguez Lozano, Pablo ^a   Verkaik, Iraima ^a   Rieradevall, Maria ^a   Prat, Narcís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARBUS MERIDIONALIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER FISH; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATOR; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM (RIVER); ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; RIVER; SPAIN;

BARBUS MERIDIONALIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RIVERS; SPAIN;

EID: 84923899560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117630     Document Type: Article

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