Spatial niche partitioning in epibiont rotifers on the waterlouse Asellus aquaticus

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1327-1337

  Fontaneto, Diego ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIBIONT; ISOPOD; METAZOAN; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ASELLUS AQUATICUS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 77955585782     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1327     Document Type: Article

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