Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
AUTHOR: Turner, R.E.
PUB. YEAR: 1988
TITLE: Secondary production in riparian wetlands
SOURCE: Transactions of the 53rd North American Wildlife and Natural
Resources Conference 53:491-501.
TOPICS: ecosystem processes, riparian ecosystem
COMMENTS: Riparian wetlands have high primary production, provide
fluctuating environments and an aquatic/terrestrial food web
or chain, resulting in concentrated secondary production.
Based on analyses of food chains, riparian ecosystems have
more trophic species per number of trophic links than do
nonwetland ecosystems. The vegetation canopy of riparian
wetlands adds to maximum ecosystem dimension, which probably
results in relatively longer food chains compared with other
wetland ecosystem types.
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/riparian/sample.htm
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