Predation by pioneer water beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from sandpit ponds, based on crop-content analysis and laboratory experiments

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 109-126

  Kehl, Siegfried ^a   Dettner, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Digestion; Feeding preference; Food selection; Food niche

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIGESTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SELECTION; NICHE PARTITIONING;

AGABUS NEBULOSUS; ALGAE; CHAOBORUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA; COLEOPTERA; CONFLUENS; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; DIPTERA; DYTISCIDAE; HYDROGLYPHUS; HYDROGLYPHUS GEMINUS; HYGROTUS CONFLUENS; KERATELLA; NEBRIOPORUS; NEBRIOPORUS CANALICULATUS; ROTIFERA; SCARODYTES HALENSIS;

EID: 0141615044     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0003-9136/2003/0158-0109     Document Type: Article

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