Basal resource quality and energy sources in three habitats of a lowland river ecosystem

This research was funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Environment and Energy under the Environmental Watering Knowledge and Research program. We thank John Pengelly from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization for dissolved organic carbon and Chl a analyses. We thank Douglas Ford from University of Western Australia for stable isotope analyses and David Francis from Deakin University is thanked for analyses of fatty acids. We thank Michael Shackleton of La Trobe University for production of Fig. 1. We also thank three anonymous reviewers and the editor Bob Hall whose insightful comments improved our manuscript.