Energy reserves and metabolic expenditures of monarch butterflies overwintering in southern California

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1982, Pages 249-256

  CHAPLIN, SUSAN B ^a   WELLS, PATRICK H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

bioenergetics; Danaus plexippus; fat metabolism; insect thermoregulation.; metabolic rate; monarch aggregations; Monarch butterfly

Indexed keywords

EID: 0020377443     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1982.tb00664.x     Document Type: Article

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