Habitat selection in spatially heterogeneous environments: A test of foraging behaviour in the clonal submerged macrophyte Vallisneria spiralis

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1552-1559

  Xiao, Keyan ^a   Yu, Dan ^a   Wang, Jinwang ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Foraging behaviour; Heterogeneous environment; Morphological plasticity; Submerged macrophyte

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; LIGHT INTENSITY; MACROPHYTE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RAMET; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

VALLISNERIA SPIRALIS;

EID: 33746237795     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01590.x     Document Type: Article

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