Circadial timing as a coexistence factor of invertebrate fauna

COLLINS P.

Birmingham United Kingdom

Workshop; Third European Workshop of Invertebrate Ecophysiology; 1998

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston

Invertebrates are an important feeding resource for the vertebrate and invertebrate fauna. Physiological models of interactions as well as an endogenous circadial timing factor can be useful to analize the effects of competence and coexistence. most interactions in a community are based on the physiological properties of the interacting organism and in ecological time we may ask if an organism is physiologically flexible to respond to changes in the community structure.