Food partitioning by lake-dwelling triclads and glossiphoniid leeches: Field and laboratory experiments

Oecologia

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 544-550

  Seaby, R M H ^a   Martin, A J ^a   Young, J O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Food; Lakes; Leeches; Triclads

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEECH;

DUGESIA POLYCHROA; GLOSSIPHONIA COMPLANATA; HELOBDELLA STAGNALIS; HIRUDINEA; ISOPODA; POLYCELIS TENUIS; TRICLADA;

EID: 0029661198     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00329714     Document Type: Article

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