Redundancy among three herbivorous insects across an experimental current velocity gradient

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 262-269

  Poff, N LeRoy ^a   Wellnitz, Todd ^a   Monroe, Jeremy B ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Context dependency; Current velocity; Functional redundancy; Herbivory; Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VELOCITY; HERBIVORY; INSECT; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; PERIPHYTON;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BAETIDAE; BAETIS; BAETIS BICAUDATUS; DRUNELLA; DRUNELLA GRANDIS; EPHEMERELLIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; GLOSSOSOMA; GLOSSOSOMA VERDONA; GLOSSOSOMATIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0037270454     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1086-2     Document Type: Article

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