Saline rivers provide arid landscapes with a considerable amount of biochemically valuable production of chironomid (Diptera) larvae

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 722, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 115-128

  Zinchenko, Tatiana D ^a   Gladyshev, Michail I ^b,c   Makhutova, Olesia N ^b   Sushchik, Nadezhda N ^b,c   Kalachova, Galina S ^b   Golovatyuk, Larisa V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY OF THE VOLGA RIVER BASIN   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chironomid larvae; Essential fatty acids; Saline rivers; Secondary production

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EMERGENCE; FATTY ACID; FLY; LANDSCAPE; LARVA; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALINITY; SECONDARY PRODUCTION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VOLGOGRAD [RUSSIAN FEDERATION];

EID: 84888237307     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1684-5     Document Type: Article

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