Predation on meiobenthic assemblages: Resource use of a tanypod guild (Chironomidae, Diptera) in a gravel stream

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-91

  Schmid, P E ^a   Schmid Araya, J M ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; CONCHAPELOPIA; DIPTERA; NILOTANYPUS; ROTIFERA; THIENEMANNIMYIA;

EID: 0030759495     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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