Sexual dimorphism and the influence of artificial elevated temperatures on body size in the imago of Nemoura trispinosa (Plecoptera: Nemouridae)

Aquatic Insects

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 243-252

  Turner, Dorothea ^a   Williams, D Dudley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size; Sexual dimorphism; Stoneflies; Thermal regime

Indexed keywords

NEMOURA TRISPINOSA; NEMOURIDAE; PLECOPTERA;

EID: 30344435269     PISSN: 01650424     EISSN: 17444152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01650420500336566     Document Type: Article

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