The Amazonian Campina dragonfly assemblage: Patterns in microhabitat useand behaviour in a foraging habitat (Anisoptera)

Odonatologica

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-248

  De Marco, P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPINA; DRAGONFLY; FORAGING; HABITAT USE; MICROHABITAT; RAINFOREST;

SOUTH AMERICA, AMAZONIA;

ERYTHEMIS VESICULOSA; ERYTHRODIPLAX LATIVITTATA; MIATHYRIA MARCELLA; ODONATA;

EID: 0031661413     PISSN: 03750183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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