Habitat complexity and sex-dependent predation of mosquito larvae in containers

Oecologia

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 300-310

  Alto, Barry W ^a   Griswold, Marcus W ^b   Lounibos, L Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Container mosquitoes; Population growth measurements; Predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

HABITAT STRUCTURE; MOSQUITO; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REFUGE; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; CORETHRELLA APPENDICULATA; OCHLEROTATUS TRISERIATUS; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS;

EID: 27544440886     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0198-x     Document Type: Article

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