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Shredders and Riparian Vegetation

  • Cummins K
  • Wilzbach M
  • Gates D
  • et al.
BioScience (1989) 39(1) 24-30
DOI: 10.2307/1310804
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A major role of shredders in stream ecosystems is the conversion of large organic plant substrates (coarse par- ticulate organic matter, CPOM) such as leaf litter into smaller particles. These finer particles (fine particulate organic matter, FPOM) are generally less than one millimeter in ...

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Cummins, K. W., Wilzbach, M. A., Gates, D. M., Perry, J. B., & Taliaferro, W. B. (1989). Shredders and Riparian Vegetation. BioScience, 39(1), 24–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/1310804

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