Body size variation among invertebrates inhabiting different canopy microhabitat: Flower visitors are smaller

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-111

  Wardhaugh, Carl W ^a   Edwards, Will ^a   Stork, Nigel E ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Canopy Crane; Daintree rainforest observatory; Microhabitat differentiation; Wet tropics

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FITNESS; FLOWER VISITING; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORE; INVERTEBRATE; MICROHABITAT; MORTALITY RISK; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OBSERVATORY; RAINFOREST; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST;

AUSTRALIA; DAINTREE; QUEENSLAND;

COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84873123818     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01410.x     Document Type: Article

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