Detrital Food Web Drives Aquatic Ecosystem Productivity in a Seasonally Inundated Managed Floodplain
C. Jeffres, E. J. Holmes, T. R. Sommer, J. V. E. Katz
The paper compares food web structure and salmon growth in different aquatic habitats in the Sacramento River Valley, finding higher productivity in seasonally inundated floodplain wetlands due to detrital carbon sources.
bioRxiv · Apr 15, 2019Ecology