Effects of forest disturbance on shredder production in headwater streams
Effects of forest disturbance on leaf shredding aquatic insects were investigated by comparing leaf biomass and shredder production in disturbed versus reference forest streams. Benthic samples were collected monthly in 3 streams in a mature hardwood reference forest and 3 streams in an 11-year-old...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39796 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10132005-152503/ |