Researchers find a keystone nutrient recycler in streams
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 09:20
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology have found that certain neotropical stream ecosystems rely almost entirely on a single fish species known as the banded tetra for the critical nutrient phosphorus. In a paper recently published in the journal Ecology, the researchers, led by Gaston E. Chip Small, explain why this particular species plays such a crucial roleand why these stream systems are vulnerable as a result.