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The Role of Discharge Variation in Scaling of Drainage Area and Food Chain Length in Rivers
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River Food Chains: Food chain length, or the number of organisms involved in any eat-or-be-eaten relationship, is a key property of aquatic habitats that regulates nutrient cycling, energy flow, and carbon exchange between aquatic ecosystems and the atmosphere. Investigating river food webs in North American watersheds, Sabo et al. (p. 965 , published online 14 October) found discharge variation governed the link between ecosystem size (watershed area) and food chain length. River-drying truncated food chain length because intermittent streams have much higher discharge variation than perennial rivers. These results could be important for the management of rivers as drought and climate change may increase the frequency of river drying and discharge variability.
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- Sabo, J. L., Finlay, J. C., Kennedy, T., & Post, D. M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-11-12
- Volume
- 330
- Issue
- 6006
- Pages
- 965-967
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2078082677
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- 2
- FWCI
- 12.84
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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