Disturbance and investment: Developmental responses of tropical lotic midges to repeated tube destruction in the juvenile stages

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 457-466

  Mckie, Brendan G ^a,b,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Investment; Life history; Oocytes; Silk; Tropical Chironomidae; Tubicolous

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; STREAM; SURVIVORSHIP;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMINAE; DIPTERA; ORTHOCLADIINAE; POLYPEDILUM;

EID: 3943096039     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2004.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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