Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning
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SALLY HLADYZ* , , MARK O. GESSNER , PAUL S. GILLER*, JEŚUS POZO § AND GUY WOODWARD* *Environmental Research Institute, Department of Zoology, Ecology & Plant Science, University College Cork, Lee Maltings Building, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland CSIRO Land and Water, Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Wodonga, Vic., Australia Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), ETH Zurich, Dübendorf, Switzerland Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of The Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K.
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