The cryptic origins of environment-indicating phantom midges (Chaoborus)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 236-243

  Dupuis, Derrick D ^a   Svensson, Jan Erik ^b,c   Taylor, Derek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FLY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY;

CHAOBORIDAE; CHAOBORUS; CHAOBORUS CRYSTALLINUS; CHAOBORUS FLAVICANS;

EID: 38749154220     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.1.0236     Document Type: Article

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