Sub-lethal effects of disturbance on a predatory net-spinning caddisfly

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 491-499

  Beveridge, Oliver S ^a,b   Lancaster, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental Stress Models; Floods; Foraging efficiency; Polycentropodidae; Trichoptera

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BODY MASS; CADDISFLY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECUNDITY; FLOOD; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; PLECTROCNEMIA CONSPERSA; POLYCENTROPODIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 33846931537     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01716.x     Document Type: Article

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