Aquatic insect adaptations to winter cold and ice

Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-19

  Danks, Hugh V ^a  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

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