Mechanisms influencing community composition and succession in mountain stream periphyton: interactions between scouring history, grazing, and irradiance

@article{Wellnitz2003MechanismsIC,
  title={Mechanisms influencing community composition and succession in mountain stream periphyton: interactions between scouring history, grazing, and irradiance},
  author={T. Wellnitz and R. Rader},
  journal={Journal of the North American Benthological Society},
  year={2003},
  volume={22},
  pages={528 - 541}
}
A field experiment with a factorial design was used to examine changes in benthic periphyton exposed to different regimes of scouring (scoured/non-scoured), light (open/shaded), and grazing (grazed/non-grazed) to investigate the role of environmental heterogeneity in shaping assemblages of periphyton in Rocky Mountain streams. Clay tile substrata were positioned at the start of the experiment either in the main channel (to receive bedload scouring) or a protected side channel (where scouring… Expand
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