Factors determining diversity in diet composition: Multivariate analysis of a guild of epiphytic predators

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 291-314

  Koperski, Pawel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Dietary composition; Guild; Hirudinea; Littoral; Multivariate statistics; Odonata; Predation; Stratiotes aloides; Trichoptera

Indexed keywords

DIET; EPIPHYTE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDATION;

POLAND;

ABLABESMYIA MONILIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; COENAGRIONIDAE; CYRNUS FLAVIDUS; DIPTERA; ENALLAGMA CYATHIGERUM; ERPOBDELLA NIGRICOLLIS; ERPOBDELLA OCTOCULATA; ERPOBDELLIDAE; HIRUDINEA; ODONATA; POLYCENTROPODIDAE; STRATIOTES ALOIDES; TRICHOPTERA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 0036388739     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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