Directional preferences in the autumn migration of the red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-186

  Benvenuti, Silvano ^a   Dall'Antonia, Paolo ^a   Ioalè, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANESSA ATALANTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

FLIGHT DIRECTION; ORIENTATION;

EID: 0029662972     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01116.x     Document Type: Article

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