Allometric growth of two species of Ephemeroptera from Neotropical mountains streams

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-150

  De Paula Paciencia, Gabriel ^a,b   Da Conceição Bispo, Pitágoras ^a   Cortezzi, Sara Sanches ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometry; Aquatic insects; Lotic environments; Morphometrics; Multivariate allometry

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; MAYFLY; MORPHOMETRY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; ONTOGENY;

EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; MASSARTELLA; THRAULODES;

EID: 84860712071     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2012007     Document Type: Article

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