Experimental evidence for niche segregation in a sister species pair of non-biting midges

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 691, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 203-212

  Nemec, Sabrina ^a,b   Heß, Maren ^a,c   Nowak, Carsten ^b   Pfenninger, Markus ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Life cycle experiments; Niche partitioning; Nitrite; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTAGONISM; COEXISTENCE; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FIELD METHOD; INSECT; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITRITE; POINT SOURCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS;

EID: 84861629537     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1074-4     Document Type: Article

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