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Evidence of upstream migration by female adults of baetis alpinus pict. (ephemeroptera) at high altitude in the pyrenees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2011

P. Lavandier
P. Lavandier*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Hydrobiologie, Université Paul-Sabatier, ERA 702 d u C.N.R.S., 118, route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex.
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Abstract

In a high mountain stream, Baetis alpinus at emergence is significantly smaller downstream than upstream. These size differences are used to demonstrate migration of adults upstream: downstream, the size of adult females caught after oviposition corresponds with the size of subimagines which have emerged there; upstream, the size of adult females corresponds with the size of subimagines which have emerged both up and downstream. The migration is clearly an upstream movement.

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Research Article
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Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1982 , pp. 55 - 59
Copyright
© Masson, 1982

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