Responses to River Inundation Pressures Control Prey Selection of Riparian Beetles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  O'Callaghan, Matt J ^a   Hannah, David M ^a   Boomer, Ian ^a   Williams, Mike ^b   Sadler, Jon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; DIET; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FLOODING; HYDROLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREY SELECTION; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPRING; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; RIVERS; SEASONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876208352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061866     Document Type: Article

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