Hydraulic habitat use with respect to body size of aquatic insect larvae: Case of six species from a French Mediterranean type stream

Limnologica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-33

  Sagnes, Pierre ^a,b   Mérigoux, Sylvie ^a,b   Péru, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Ecological and biological traits; Flow management; Instream habitat models; Larval growth; Physical habitat use; Shear velocity; Size classes; Stream ecology

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; INSECT; LARVA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; STREAM; STREAMFLOW;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARTHROPODA; BLEPHARICERA; CHEUMATOPSYCHE LEPIDA; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; EPHORON VIRGO; HEXAPODA; HYDROPSYCHE EXOCELLATA; INVERTEBRATA; OLIGONEURIELLA RHENANA; SERRATELLA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 38149114008     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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