Foraging and Resource Patchiness: Field Experiments with a Grazing Stream Insect
- 1 July 1981
- Vol. 37 (1) , 46-52
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3544071
Abstract
Larvae of the stream caddisfly Dicosmoecus gilvipes Hagen (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) graze a periphyton resource that is heterogeneously distributed in space ...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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