Novel observations of midge and mosquito larval population dynamics in leaves of the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea L.

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 482, Issue , 2002, Pages 191-196

  Hamilton IV, Robert ^a   Duffield, Richard M ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diptera larvae; Metriocnemus knabi Coq.; Midge; Mosquito; Phytotelmata; Population dynamics; Sarracenia purpurea L.; Wyeomyia smithii (Coq.)

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); SURVEYING;

PITCHER PLANTS;

HYDROLOGY;

LARVA; LEAF; PHYTOTELMIC ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; METRIOCNEMUS; METRIOCNEMUS KNABI; SARRACENIA; SARRACENIA PURPUREA; SARRACENIACEAE; WYEOMYIA; WYEOMYIA SMITHII;

EID: 0037104841     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021297717644     Document Type: Article

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