Group size of feeding stream case-bearing caddisfly grazers and resource abundance

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 269-279

  Katano, Izumi ^a   Mitsuhashi, Hiromune ^b   Isobe, Yu ^a   Sato, Hiroaki ^a   Oishi, Tadashi ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diatom; Enclosure experiment; Growth performance; I < inf>; Intraspecific competition; Micrasema quadriloba; Periphyton mat; Population size; RGR

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; MICRASEMA; QUADRILOBA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 34047123893     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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