Life history and emergence patterns of stonefly species in mountain streams of the Futaleufú basin, Patagonia (Argentina)

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-144

  Hollmann, M E T ^a   Miserendino, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Life history; Plecoptera; River; Synchronicity; Voltinism

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER WATER; STONEFLY; STREAMWATER; SYNCHRONY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLTINISM;

ARGENTINA; FUTALEUFU RIVER; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANTARCTOPERLA; AUBERTOPERLA ILLIESI; AUSTROPERLIDAE; GRIPOPTERYGIDAE; HEXAPODA; KLAPOPTERYX KUSCHELI; LIMNOPERLA JAFFUELI; NOTHOFAGUS; NOTOPERLOPSIS FEMINA; PLECOPTERA; SENZILLOIDES;

EID: 46849095426     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn:2008014     Document Type: Article

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