The impact of seasonally changing feeding habits on the secondary production and accumulation of mercury in a filter-feeding Caddisfly

Food habits, net-spinning activity, energetics, and mercury accumulation in Hydrospsyche morosa were examined over a one year period on the South River in central Virginia. Feeding nets were observed as early as April and were widespread by May. Nets were virtually absent from late November through...

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Main Author: Snyder, Craig D.
Other Authors: Biology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45191
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10132010-020333/