Food selection in three leaf-shredding stream invertebrates

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 316, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 173-181

  Rong, Qian ^a   Sridhar, K R ^a   Bärlocher, Felix ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aquatic hyphomycetes; conditioning; endosymbiotic bacteria; food selection; leaf shredders

Indexed keywords

ENDOSYMBIOTIC BACTERIUM; FOOD SELECTION; HYPHOMYCETE; LEAF SHREDDER; SHREDDER;

AMPHIPODA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; DIPTERA; PYCNOPSYCHE GUTTIFER; TIPULA CALOPTERA; TIPULIDAE; TRICHOPTERA; GAMMARUS TIGRINIS;

EID: 0029501718     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00017435     Document Type: Article

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