Environmental cues or conspecific attraction as causes for egg mass aggregation in hydrobiosid caddisflies

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 661, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 351-362

  Reich, Paul ^a,c   Hale, Robin ^a,b   Downes, Barbara J ^b   Lancaster, Jill ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microhabitat; Oviposition; Trichoptera; Water velocity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BREEDING SITE; CADDISFLY; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MICROHABITAT; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ROCK PROPERTY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

HEXAPODA; HYDROBIOSIDAE; TRICHOPTERA; ULMEROCHOREMA RUBICONUM;

EID: 79959783973     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0543-x     Document Type: Article

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