Predation-dependent oviposition habitat selection by the mosquito Culiseta longiareolata: A test of competing hypotheses

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-40

  Kiflawi, Moshe ^a   Blaustein, Leon ^a   Mangel, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Culiseta; Mechanisms; Notonecta; Oviposition habitat selection; Predation

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; OVIPOSITION; PREDATION;

CULISETA; NOTONECTA;

EID: 0037262664     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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