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of the Ogeechee snag-habitat itself. A significant proportion of the production of the snag community is subsidized by organic s ...

community-scale patterns of production in temperate streams: (1) trophic resource demand scales as M0.75, (2) resources are used ...

organization. When scaled beyond the level of the individual, production is a flow or flux per unit of time (e.g., amount of bio ...

cohort P/B 1 10 (^110) 0.0010.01 0.1 100 (^100010000) P/Bc = 6.608 M0.11 (r^2 = 0.48, p < 0.001, df = 32) M (mg) M (mg) P/Ba ...

significant quantities for a small proportion of the year (short CPI), which will lead to a high annual P/B. Even taxa achieving ...

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CHAPTER FIVE Body size in streams: macroinvertebrate community size composition along natural and human-induced environmental gr ...

Recognizing that a further fundamental feature of stream ecosystems is their flow-related disturbance regimes, Townsend & Hi ...

of interest. Although beset by complexity, descriptive studies, on the other hand, have the advantage of naturalness: but to be ...

than before, suggesting recolonization was mainly via ovipositing adults. In a finer scale study in a New Zealand stream, Mattha ...

Small body size is predicted to be beneficial in disturbed hydraulic conditions because it permits invertebrates to remain withi ...

size and phosphate concentration. They reasonably assumed that phosphate availability was related to stream primary productivity ...

animals, or that the larger interstitial spaces associated with mountain cobble streams were responsible. Experimental studies E ...

gravels are of an appropriate size to reduce fish foraging efficiency on the invertebrate carnivores, and is in accord with obse ...

Two conclusions can be emphasized about the potential influence of chem- ical contaminants associated with agriculture or mining ...

of 1.5 mm. Thus, we excluded meiofaunal species; but note that meiofauna are not commonly seen in samples from these streams (Th ...