Land use has an important role influencing stream ecosystem processes, such as leaf litter breakdown. Here, we assessed rates of leaf litter breakdown in low-order tropical streams draining forest, agriculture, and urban land uses in Puerto Rico. To measure leaf breakdown rates, we placed litter bags made of coarse mesh in nine streams, three for each land use type. At each stream, we measured changes in leaf mass over time, leaf breakdown rates, macroinvertebrate assemblages, and stream physicochemistry. Streams differed in their water physicochemistry, with urban streams showing high values for most variables. Stream physical habitat was evaluated using a visual assessment protocol, which indicated that agricultural and urban streams were...
Leaf breakdown is a primary process of nutrient cycling and energy flow, contributing to the functio...
Leaf litter breakdown is a critical ecosystem process in urban streams, but environmental conditions...
ABSTRACT\ud A signature of globalization is the prevalence of exotic trees along reforested urban an...
Abstract: Land use has an important role influencing stream ecosystem processes, such as leaf litter...
High species richness of tropical riparian trees influences the diversity of organic detritus enteri...
Urbanization is a major land use form that has large impacts on ecosystems. Urban development in th...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorLow-order forested streams are dependent ...
© Asociación Ibérica de Limnología Madrid. The main goal of this study was to identify the main driv...
Riparian forests provide high amounts of leaf litter to tropical headwater streams (1–3 order) and i...
The expansion of agriculture is particularly worrying in tropical regions of the world, where native...
Para muchos arroyos, la hojarasca proveniente de la zona ribereña es la base de las redes tróficas, ...
J. Jesús Casas et al.Terrestrial plant litter is important in sustaining stream food webs in foreste...
Leaf breakdown in streams is affected by several factors, such as leaf characteristics, water chemis...
Tropical montane ecosystems of the Andes are critically threatened by a rapid land-use change which ...
Amazon and Cerrado-forested streams show natural fluctuations in leaf litter quantity along the time...
Leaf breakdown is a primary process of nutrient cycling and energy flow, contributing to the functio...
Leaf litter breakdown is a critical ecosystem process in urban streams, but environmental conditions...
ABSTRACT\ud A signature of globalization is the prevalence of exotic trees along reforested urban an...
Abstract: Land use has an important role influencing stream ecosystem processes, such as leaf litter...
High species richness of tropical riparian trees influences the diversity of organic detritus enteri...
Urbanization is a major land use form that has large impacts on ecosystems. Urban development in th...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorLow-order forested streams are dependent ...
© Asociación Ibérica de Limnología Madrid. The main goal of this study was to identify the main driv...
Riparian forests provide high amounts of leaf litter to tropical headwater streams (1–3 order) and i...
The expansion of agriculture is particularly worrying in tropical regions of the world, where native...
Para muchos arroyos, la hojarasca proveniente de la zona ribereña es la base de las redes tróficas, ...
J. Jesús Casas et al.Terrestrial plant litter is important in sustaining stream food webs in foreste...
Leaf breakdown in streams is affected by several factors, such as leaf characteristics, water chemis...
Tropical montane ecosystems of the Andes are critically threatened by a rapid land-use change which ...
Amazon and Cerrado-forested streams show natural fluctuations in leaf litter quantity along the time...
Leaf breakdown is a primary process of nutrient cycling and energy flow, contributing to the functio...
Leaf litter breakdown is a critical ecosystem process in urban streams, but environmental conditions...
ABSTRACT\ud A signature of globalization is the prevalence of exotic trees along reforested urban an...