Influence of the predatory backswimmer, Notonecta maculata, on invertebrate community structure

Agriculture & Biology

• Ceriodaphnia 10%
• Chironomidae 7%
• community structure 57%
• Culiseta 51%
• deserts 6%
• eggs 4%
• habitat preferences 6%
• instars 5%
• invertebrates 50%
• Israel 7%
• larvae 8%
• Notonecta 100%
• Notonectidae 95%
• predation 5%
• predators 5%
• pupae 6%
• species richness 23%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• community structure 51%
• consumption 10%
• desert 12%
• dipteran 22%
• egg 14%
• experiment 17%
• field experiment 13%
• habitat selection 17%
• invertebrate 52%
• laboratory 16%
• larva 28%
• predation 14%
• predator 13%
• prey preference 25%
• pupa 23%
• species richness 39%