Order Odonata

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology: Fourth Edition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 893-932

  Suhling, Frank ^a   Sahlén, Göran ^b   Gorb, Stanislav ^c   Kalkman, Vincent J ^d   Dijkstra, Klaas Douwe B ^d   van Tol, Jan ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biotic Interactions; Collection and other Methods; Damselflies; Dispersal; Distribution and Diversity; Dragonflies; Habitats; Life Cycles; Morphology and Ultrastructures; Systematics and Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942869243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385026-3.00035-8     Document Type: Chapter

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