Dragonfly predators influence biomass and density of pond snails

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 407-415

  Turner, Andrew M ^a   Chislock, Michael F ^a  

^a CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food webs; Gastropoda; Odonata; Predation; Snail

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DRAGONFLY; FIELD SURVEY; FOOD WEB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVA; MESOCOSM; POND; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SIZE; SNAIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SNAIL; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SNAILS; WETLANDS;

ANAX JUNIUS; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ASTACOIDEA; BASOMMATOPHORA; BELOSTOMA FLUMINEUM; GASTROPODA; HELISOMA TRIVOLVIS; HEXAPODA; LYMNAEIDAE; ODONATA; PANTALA HYMENAEA; PHYSA ACUTA; STAGNICOLA ELODES;

EID: 34547809337     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0736-9     Document Type: Article

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