Supply-side ecology of aquatic insect populations; the role of egg supply in population regulation.

Variations in fecundity over catchment scales: Implications for caddisfly populations spanning a thermal gradient

William D Bovill, Barbara J Downes, Jill Lancaster

2019-04-01

Population sizes of stream insects depend on the number of eggs that enter the benthos. Densities of oviposited eggs have been lin..

Caddisfly egg mass morphology mediates egg predation: potential costs to individuals and populations

William D Bovill, Barbara J Downes, Jill Lancaster

2015-02-01

Egg predation is seldom considered in life-history studies of freshwater insects, but could be an important source of mortality wi..

A test of the preference-performance hypothesis with stream insects: selective oviposition affects the hatching success of caddisfly eggs

William D Bovill, Barbara J Downes, Jill Lancaster

2013-11-01

Under the preference-performance hypothesis (PPH), oviparous females select oviposition sites that optimise the fitness of their o..

The recruitment dynamics of stream insect larvae: oviposition and egg mortality of hydrobiosid caddisflies

W Bovill

2013-01-01

Population ecology seeks to explain how and why biotic populations vary in abundance through time and space. Many populations are ..