Insect species interactions and resource effects in treeholes: Are helodid beetles bottom-up facilitators of midge populations?

Oecologia

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 303-312

  Paradise, Christopher J ^a   Dunson, William A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceratopogonidae; Community structure; Helodidae; Processing chain commensalism; Protozoan

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; MIDGE; PROTOZOA; TREE HOLE;

USA, PENNSYLVANIA;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CULICOIDES GUTTIPENNIS; DIPTERA; HELODES PULCHELLA; HELODIDAE; PRIONOCYPHON DISCOIDEUS;

EID: 0030617457     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050088     Document Type: Article

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