Detritivore diversity promotes a relative contribution rate of detritus to the diet of predators in ponds

Ecosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Fukumori, Kayoko ^a   Yoshizaki, Erina ^a   Takamura, Noriko ^a   Kadoya, Taku ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthos community; Detritus based energy channel; Food web; Multitrophic levels; Pond ecosystem; Species diversity; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963801178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1211     Document Type: Article

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