Competition and facilitation within and between a snail and a mayfly larva and the effect on the grazing process

Aquatic Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 669-677

  Hertonsson, Pia ^a   Åbjörnsson, Kajsa ^a   Brönmark, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ephemeropteran; Grazing; Interspecific; Intraspecific; Mollusca; Periphyton

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LABORATORY METHOD; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; MAYFLY; SNAIL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

CLOEON DIPTERUM; EPHEMEROPTERA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; MOLLUSCA; RADIX PEREGRA;

EID: 55949100115     PISSN: 13862588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10452-007-9129-8     Document Type: Article

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