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importance of body size in the aquatic compared with the terrestrial realm, and little has been published explicity on the macro ...

Dispersal and body size in aquatic invertebrates Active dispersers in freshwaters Freshwater habitats are typically isolated, an ...

Small, flying insects, particularly those<4 mm in length (Fig.10.1) such as many Diptera and Coleoptera, ‘sail with the wind’ ...

Passive dispersers in freshwaters In terms of overland, inter-site dispersal, both wind and animal vectors have been implicated ...

than small taxa, paralleling the scenario in marine environments but contrast- ing with Finlay ( 2002 ) andFinlay and Esteban’s ...

current movements (Largier, 2003 ; Shanks, Largier & Brink, 2000 ; Siegelet al., 2003 ) to larval responses to their own ene ...

planktotrophic propagules would be low given the attrition rates normally encountered in the plankton. Lecithotrophs and brooder ...

The odonates are ideally suited for investigating macroecological patterns and the potential role of body size and dispersal in ...

represents only a small part of their range). In a recent analysis on a subset of the data collated from the OdonataCentral data ...

with body length for either species comparisons or using contrast scores gen- erated by independent contrasts analysis, which su ...

zooplankton species to disperse rapidly over local scales (Ca ́ceres & Soluk,2002 ; Cohen & Shurin,2003 ; Largier,2003 ; ...

produce long-lived diapausing egg banks (De Stasio,1989; Hairstonet al., 1995; Ca ́ceres,1998 ; Brendonck & De Meester,2003 ...

determining rates of spread. No attempt has been made explicitly to model spread in passively dispersing freshwater taxa, but fu ...

Re-analysis of data from Collin (2003 ) describing sizes and distributions of planktotrophically dispersing calyptraeid gastropo ...

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systems, discrete and surrounded by inimical habitat. They have relatively low persistence on both ecological and geological tim ...

the key effect of body size in these passive dispersing species is upon fecundity. In marine systems it is also possible that th ...

may be possible to use dispersal as an organismal property that links body size and distribution patterns. Certainly, the produc ...

Cohen, G. M. & Shurin, J. B. (2003). Scale- dependence and mecanisms of dispersal in freshwater zooplankton.Oikos, 103 , 603 ...

Gaston, K. J. & Blackburn, T. M. (2000).Pattern and Process in Macroecology. Oxford: Blackwell Science. Gillooly, J.F. & ...