Balancing food availability and hydrodynamic constraint: Phenotypic plasticity and growth in Simulium noelleri blackfly larvae

Oecologia

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-46

  Zhang, Yixin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blackfly larvae; Feeding structure; Particle flux rate; Stream ecology; Suspension feeding

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VELOCITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LARVA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FLY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOOD SUPPLY; LARVA; PHENOTYPE; SIMULIIDAE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; SIMULIUM NOELLERI;

EID: 30544431969     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0243-9     Document Type: Article

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