Container-breeding mosquitoes and predator community dynamics along an urban-forest gradient: The effects of habitat type and isolation

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 486-495

  Weterings, Robbie ^a,b   Umponstira, Chanin ^b   Buckley, Hannah L ^c  

^a Cat Drop Foundation   (Netherlands)

^b NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Culicidae; Isolation; Predator prey community; Toxorhynchites splendens; Vector ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908027025     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.07.006     Document Type: Article

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