Impacts of predation and intracohort cannibalism in the water strider Gerris buenoi (Heteroptera: Gerridae)

Oikos

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 391-397

  Klingenberg, Christian Peter ^a   Spence, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERRIS BUENOI; GERRIDAE; HETEROPTERA;

CANNIBALISM; WATER STRIDER;

EID: 0029434914     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545879     Document Type: Article

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