Effects of Capacity on Resource Input and the Aquatic Metazoan Community Structure in Phytotelmata

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-73

  Sota, Teiji ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bamboo stump; Biomass; Habitat size; Metazoan community; Phytotelmata; Species diversity; Treehole

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DASYHELEA; DIPTERA; HELODIDAE; METAZOA; NAIDIDAE; NEMATODA; TOXORHYNCHITES; TOXORHYNCHITES TOWADENSIS;

EID: 0002440446     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02514972     Document Type: Article

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