Environmental heterogeneity in space and time: Patch use, recruitment and dynamics of a rock pool population of a gyrinid beetle

Oikos

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 227-238

  Svensson, Bo W ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; ROCK POOL;

SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; GYRINIDAE; GYRINUS OPACUS;

EID: 0033050795     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546717     Document Type: Article

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