Caloric content of leaves of five tree species from the riparian vegetation in a forest fragment from South Brazil

Abstract Aim: The measurement of the caloric content evidences the amount of energy that remains in the leaf and that can be released to the aquatic trophic chain. We assessed the energy content of leaves from five riparian tree species of a forest fragment in south Brazil and analyzed whether leaf...

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Main Authors: Leandro Fabrício Fiori, Vivian de Mello Cionek, Patricia Almeida Sacramento, Evanilde Benedito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Limnologia 2015-09-01
Series:Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-975X2015000300247&lng=en&tlng=en