A laboratory study on feeding plasticity of the shredder Sericostoma vittatum Rambur (Sericostomatidae)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 575, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 353-359

  Carvalho, Emerson M ^a   Graça, Manuel A S ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Food quality; Growth rates; Laboratory study; Sericostomatidae; Shredder

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; FOOD PRODUCTS; GROWTH KINETICS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH RATES; LABORATORY STUDY; SERICOSTOMATIDAE; SHREDDERS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOFILM; CADDISFLY; DECIDUOUS TREE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD LIMITATION; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; LEGUME; MACROPHYTE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER WATER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACACIA; ACACIA DEALBATA; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; BETULACEAE; MYRIOPHYLLUM AQUATICUM; SERICOSTOMA VITTATUM; SERICOSTOMATIDAE;

EID: 33845400837     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0383-x     Document Type: Article

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