Consumer Regulation of Nutrient Cycling
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 29 (1) , 28-34
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1307570
Abstract
Examples from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems illustrate that consumer activities alter nutrient cycling rates. Nutrients are translocated by migrThis publication has 41 references indexed in Scilit:
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