Drought-escape behaviors of aquatic insects maybe adaptations to highly variable flow regimes characteristic of desert rivers

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 399-402

  Lytle, David A ^a   Olden, Julian D ^b   McMullen, Laura E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; DRYOPIDAE; GOMPHIDAE; HEXAPODA; ODONATA; POSTELICHUS IMMSI; PROGOMPHUS BOREALIS;

EID: 53049087623     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/JS-19.1     Document Type: Article

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