Mechanisms relating biomass concentration in individuals to interspecific resource competition

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-36

  Basset, Alberto ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Biologia Animale ed Ecologia Unirersita di Cagliari   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; MAYFLY; RESOURCE COMPETITION;

CAENIDAE; CAENIS MACRURA; EPHEMEROPTERA; GASTROPODA; ISOPODA; LYMNAEA TRUNCATULA; PLANORBARIUS CORNEUS; PROASELLUS COXALIS;

EID: 0030620564     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545797     Document Type: Article

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