Quantifying aquatic insect deposition from lake to land

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 499-509

  Dreyer, Jamin ^a,b   Townsend, Philip A ^a   Hook, James C ^a,c   Hoekman, David ^a,d   Vander Zanden, M Jake ^a   Gratton, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Aquatic terrestrial linkages; Chironomidae; Cross ecosystem subsidy; Iceland; Nutrient deposition

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; INSECT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NUTRIENT BUDGET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ICELAND; MYVATN;

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84927929101     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0704.1     Document Type: Article

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