Variation in communities of dipterans in Nepenthes pitchers in Singapore: Predators increase prey community diversity

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-183

  Mogi, M ^a   Chan, K L ^b  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Community; Culicidae; Diptera; Nepenthes pitcher; Selective predation; Singapore

Indexed keywords

AMPULLARIA; CULEX EMINENTIA; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES AMPULLARIA; NEPENTHES GRACILIS; NEPENTHES RAFFLESIANA; NEPENTHOMYIA; NEPENTHOSYRPHUS; PHORIDAE; PIERRETIA; TOXORHYNCHITES; TOXORHYNCHITES ACAUDATUS; TRIPTEROIDES; TRIPTEROIDES NEPENTHIS; TRIPTEROIDES TENAX; URANOTAENIA; URANOTAENIA MOULTONI;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PREDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0031426751     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aesa/90.2.177     Document Type: Article

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