Responses of primary production, leaf litter decomposition and associated communities to stream eutrophication

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 202, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-40

  Dunck, Bárbara ^a   Lima Fernandes, Eva ^b   Cássio, Fernanda ^b   Cunha, Ana ^c   Rodrigues, Liliana ^a,d   Pascoal, Cláudia ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^d University of Maringá   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fungi; Invertebrates; Periphyton; Streams; Subsidy stress model

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; NUTRIENTS; RIVER POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

ASSOCIATED COMMUNITIES; INVERTEBRATES; LEAF DECOMPOSITIONS; LEAF LITTER DECOMPOSITION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; PERIPHYTONS; STREAMS; STRESS MODELING;

EUTROPHICATION;

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; DECOMPOSITION; EUTROPHICATION; FUNGUS; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF LITTER; PERIPHYTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STREAM;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CASTANEA SATIVA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; FUNGUS; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF LITTER; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PORTUGAL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); RIVER BASIN; STREAM (RIVER); STRESS; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER;

AVE BASIN; PORTUGAL;

ALGAE; CASTANEA SATIVA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYTA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATES; PLANT LEAVES; PORTUGAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

EID: 84925353345     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.03.014     Document Type: Article

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