Behavior and aquatic plants as factors affecting predation by three species of larval predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 637, Issue , 2010, Pages 33-43

  Yee, Donald A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Habitat domain; Intraguild predation; Spatial complexity; Temporary wetlands

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC HABITATS; AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; AQUATIC PLANTS; BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS; COLEOPTERA; HABITAT DOMAIN; HABITAT USE; HUNTING BEHAVIOR; INTRA-GUILD PREDATION; LARVAL BEHAVIOR; NATURAL AQUATIC SYSTEMS; NEGATIVE INTERACTION; OPEN WATER; PLANT DENSITIES; SPATIAL COMPLEXITY;

AQUACULTURE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MAMMALS; WETLANDS;

ECOLOGY;

AQUATIC PLANT; BEETLE; COEXISTENCE; COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT USE; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; LARVA; PREY PREFERENCE; WETLAND;

COLEOPTERA; DYTISCIDAE; DYTISCUS; GRAPHODERUS; INVERTEBRATA; RHANTUS;

EID: 74249090974     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9982-7     Document Type: Article

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