Consequences of warming and resource quality on the stoichiometry and nutrient cycling of a stream shredder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Mas Martí, Esther ^a   Romaní, Anna M ^b   Muñoz, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRITIVORE; ECHINOGAMMARUS BERILLONI; EXCRETION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH RATE; LEAF LITTER; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; POPULUS NIGRA; PREDICTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BIOMASS; DEFECATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULUS; RIVER; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ECHINOGAMMARUS BERILLONI; POPULUS NIGRA;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; DEFECATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANT LEAVES; POPULUS; RIVERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928905853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118520     Document Type: Article

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