Life history dependent behavioural variation in water striders, Aquarius remigis

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 993-1007

  Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^a   Perner, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUARIUS REMIGIS; GERRIDAE; GERRIS REMIGIS; HETEROPTERA;

FORAGING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR; TERRITORIALITY; WATER STRIDER;

EID: 0030301926     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01177.x     Document Type: Article

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