Who eats whom in a pool? A comparative study of prey selectivity by predatory aquatic insects

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/12:43883392

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037741" target="_blank" >http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0037741</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037741" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0037741</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Who eats whom in a pool? A comparative study of prey selectivity by predatory aquatic insects

Original language description

Predatory aquatic insects are a diverse group comprising top predators in small fishless water bodies. Knowledge of their diet composition is fragmentary, which hinders the understanding of mechanisms maintaining their high local diversity and of their impacts on local food web structure and dynamics. We conducted multiple-choice predation experiments using nine common species of predatory aquatic insects, including adult and larval Coleoptera, adult Heteroptera and larval Odonata, and complemented themwith literature survey of similar experiments. Our results show that all predatory species are more or less selective. We identify separate modules in the experimentally assembled food web and demonstrate that ontogenetic diet shifts might be less pronounced in these predators than in other groups.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000305343900012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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