Does one community shape the other? Dragonflies and fish in Swedish lakes

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-133

  Wittwer, Torben ^a,b,c   Sahlén, Göran ^b   Suhling, Frank ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antipredator traits; Community composition; Fish; Multivariate analysis; Odonata; Predation; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952123662     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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