Foraging rates of larval dragonfly colonists are positively related to habitat isolation: Results from a landscape-level experiment

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  McCauley, Shannon J ^a,b   Brodin, Tomas ^a,c   Hammond, John ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Foraging rate; Patch isolation; Predation

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; DRAGONFLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LABORATORY METHOD; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; PATCH DYNAMICS; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; LARVA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES);

EID: 77949519538     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650444     Document Type: Article

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