The influence of environmental microstructure on the behavioural phase state and distribution of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 247-256

  Bouaïchi, Abdelghani ^a   Simpson, Stephen J ^a   Roessingh, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

behaviour; gregarization; locust; phase; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; ACRIDIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

DESERT LOCUST; GREGARIZATION; MICROCLIMATE; MICROHABITAT;

EID: 0030301552     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1996.tb00862.x     Document Type: Article

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