Scale, time, space, and predictability: Species distributions of preimaginal black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Oecologia

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-92

  McCreadie, John W ^a   Adler, Peter H ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecoregion; Predictability; Scale; Simuliidae; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

BLACK FLY; PREDICTABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL SCALE;

USA, SOUTH CAROLINA;

DIPTERA; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 0031919596     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050423     Document Type: Article

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