Laboratory evaluation of the effect of alternative prey and vegetation on predation of Culex annulirostris immatures by Australian native fish species

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 412-417

  Hurst, Timothy P ^a   Kay, Brian H ^a   Brown, Michael D ^a,b   Ryan, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Suntec Tower Three   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alternative prey; Culex annulirostris; Fish; Preference; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CULEX; FISH; PLANT; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CULEX; FISHES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ADELOTUS BREVIS; AMBASSIDAE; AMBASSIS MARIANUS; ANURA; ATHERINIDAE; ATHERINOMORUS LACUNOSUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; CRATEROCEPHALUS STERCUSMUSCARUM; CULEX ANNULIROSTRIS; ELEOTRIDAE; GOBIO GOBIO; HYPSELEOTRIS COMPRESSA; HYPSELEOTRIS GALII; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; MELANOTAENIA DUBOULAYI; MELANOTAENIIDAE; PSEUDOMUGIL SIGNIFER; RETROPINNA SEMONI; RETROPINNIDAE;

EID: 33750409716     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/8756-971X(2006)22[412:LEOTEO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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