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HABITAT STRUCTURE OF A DROSOPHILID COMMUNITY AT INUVIK, NWT, CANADA (DIPTERA: DROSOPHILIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Masanori J. Toda
Affiliation:
The Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan

Extract

The northern subarctic region is the limit of the distribution of Drosophilidae (Toda 1984); the family is of tropical origin (Throckmorton 1975). Hence, a drosophilid community inhabiting the northernmost subarctic region is likely to have a relatively simple community structure. This note presents information on the habitat preferences of a drosophilid community at Inuvik (68°22′ N, 133°45′ W) in the Mackenzie delta, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1985

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