Spatial organization of a shredder guild of caddisflies (Trichoptera) in a riffle - Searching for the effect of competition

Limnologica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-136

  Schmera, Dénes ^a   Eros, Tibor ^b   Greenwood, Malcolm T ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association; Co existence; Co occurrence; Competition; Intraspecific aggregation; Null model

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; FLY; GUILD; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEAF LITTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 34247238170     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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